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Old 12-24-2015, 09:52 AM
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Originally Posted by speedracerntrixie
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.
He said "[it is] a pig to land due to can't bleed off the excessive speed." Not that he needed to land it fast. Wrong "bottom line."