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Re: Race bike Stability and Safety

To: DrMayf <drmayf@teknett.com>
Subject: Re: Race bike Stability and Safety
From: "Bryan A. Savage Jr" <basavage@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 22:16:50 -0700
We're talking aeroDYNAMICS here. I'll bet the CP moves around DYNAMICALLY
as speed and attitude change.

I was wondering, if it was easy then why have several aircraft companies
had to modify a design, after flight test showed instability, by
increasing the size of the vertical stabilizer?

Bryan



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