Pushing the limit

Alan Minyard wrote in message . ..
SNIP:
Of course you want to be *really* sure that you don't load a 47 tail
heavy. That makes for a very short, very interesting flight :-)

Al Minyard

While I was working at Miami IAP there were two 'CG' crashes - one was
a D18 loaded tail heavy - nosed up on reaching flying speed, stalled
and nosed down (fatally) shortly there after. Another was a DC8
freighter full of blooded cattle headed for South America. CG so far
forward it couldn't rotate; too far down to stop on pavement, ended up
in a big wide drainage ditch. Killed a couple of the crew; all the
cattle had to be killed because of injuries. Just two out of a long
long sad list of such events.
Walt BJ