On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:13:19 GMT, Jose
wrote:

Troll or real?

Real.

I've seen referencs to "such and such an aircraft has a flying tail". I
imagine it means "out of the slipstream", but it sound sort of dumb to
me. Is it more than marketspeak? Does "flying tail" actually mean
something?

Wasn't it "all-flying tail"? And didn't it refer to stabilators? I
took it to mean that instead of changing the chord, as with elevators,
the angle of attack of the horizontal stabilizer changed. The
implication might have been that there was less drag, or less change
of drag, that way.

Don