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Old 04-27-2010 | 10:37 AM
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Default RE: Full flying elevator question.

Yup

Bottom line is that aerodynamics is way more complex than most wish.

The reason for wind tunnels is because the formulas simply cannot provide 100% of the answers.
The reason for flight testing is because the wind tunnels do not dependably prove anything.
And a fairly significant percentage of production aircraft have problems.

It just ain't sound byte simple.