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Old 07-23-2005 | 11:59 AM
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Tall Paul
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Default RE: High speed tail surfaces.
There's no air up there! (Where the X-15 flew.)
THe vertical in particular is in the last part of the disturbed flow around the plane, and needed to be truncated to be effective.
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