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10-06-2004 | 01:53 AM

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From: Zentsuji, JAPAN

Inverted airfoil on tail surface?

I've read that the Pfalz DIII had a (mild) inverted airfoil shape to the horizontal stab. This was said to improve its ability to come out of a dive. Can someone explain why this would be so?

--Don

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