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Old 08-23-2010 | 11:47 PM
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pimmnz
 
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Default RE: Horizontel stab dihedral

And big airliners don't land xwind with one wing down. No need for anyone to do that. Actually almost all the commercial jets have tailplane dihedral and it's more likely to do with keeping a bit of the surface out of the wing wash when those big flaps etc are all hanging out at high AOA, that and a bit of lateral stability aid at high yaw angles, as someone already said.
Evan, WB #12.