In article ,
Pat Flannery wrote:
Yep, lots of compromises in some of those wartime designs... Some of the
photo-recon versions of the Spitfire had a tail tank that compromised
stability even more drastically

_Tail tank_?! Oh, I've got to see a cutaway of this! :-)

Not literally in the tail, if (dim) memory serves, but it was called that
because it was in the aft fuselage.
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