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Old 10-05-2018, 09:33 PM
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Originally Posted by r ward
if one wing is going to stall before the other,...I would think you'd want the bottom wing to stall first......
For pronounced positive stagger (upper wing positioned well forward of the lower wing), losing a big portion of the lift provided by the bottom wing may introduce a tail-heavy problem.
The location of the CG remains the same, but the center of lift moves forward some.

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