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Interestingly, I recently spoke to a loadmaster who told me that left/right side weight distributions are far less important than forward/aft, to the point that
by 22c 4y ago
Interestingly, I recently spoke to a loadmaster who told me that left/right side weight distributions are far less important than forward/aft, to the point that for the majority of aircraft they're loading, imbalance to the left or right side of the plane aren't accounted for at all.
- eftychis 4y agoYes you want the center of mass to be more forward than the center of lift. Otherwise, a small deviation in the pitch becomes hard to impossible to recover -- the system is unstable and stalls extremely easily. If that is a fighter plane of course you want that, so you make sure the opposite is true, and have a computer counteract that during normal flight.
- cwillu 4y agoI laughed the first time I made an airplane with the centre of mass behind the centre of lift in Kerbal Space Program.