In article H34lc.14243$I%1.1072718@attbi_s51, Jay Honeck
wrote:

Wow. That plane should not have flown.
Amazing!

That's what MDD engineers said until they went back and ran the numbers.
BTW, if you ever compare an F-15 to an F-5, you will see that the
horizontal stabilizers on the F-15 are about the same size as the wings
of the F-5.