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January 9th 07, 02:06 AM
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Why does the shuttle throttle on ascent?
Henry Spencer 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! :-) Apparently, some Soviet jets used fuel tanks in the vertical fin. The Monogram (now it's Revell after the two companies merged) transparent model of the P-51D has the fuselage fuel tank in it: http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/rvl/rvl04726.htm The really amazing model was the transparent Monogram 1/24th scale Bell UH-1 "Huey" helicopter. It took forever to spin up to full speed, but God help you if that main rotor ever hit you at full RPM. :-D Pat 
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