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Tandem Wing Design
Tandem wing aircraft, generally speaking, have two larger main wings, although 3-wing aircraft variants are also commonly called tandem wings. Tandem wings feature a foreplane used for attitude control located well forward of a vehicle's center of gravity. Advantages of tandem wing aircraft: the design frees pilots from the too-often-fatal stall-spin, low-altitude crash. The foreplane may stall, but the main wing does not, and note that the pilot will typically face a sudden dive. Additionally,...
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