ORIGINAL: dick Hanson
you guys who have not flown one of the Tensors (Baron????) just can't appreciate how they work-
I have several Tensors and do appreciate how they work. Like indicated in my earlier post, I believe side force generators (by definition) are not intended to affect the directional stability one way or the other. As you mentioned earlier, though, they make it easier to obtain a directionally unstable aircraft by moving the CG a little too far aft (which is not as far aft as one would be accustomed to with typical aircraft).