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Old 12-24-2015, 09:38 AM
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A nose heavy airplane requires you to maintain speed to keep the nose up. It needs airflow over the elevator right? Not to mention that the more elevator required is also more aerodynamic force being applied to the tail in a downward motion. This effectively increases the wing loading thus increasing the stall speed as well. Bottom line, a nose heavy airplane has to be landed faster then one with the CG closer to neutral.