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Originally Posted by speede5
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Apparently there are pictures showing the pilot slumped over in the cockpit, which would be the likely result of an 11g pull. If the aircraft had a tendency to climb at speed, he would have flown with full elevator trim down, and when the tab broke off would have experienced an immediate pull.
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Seems counterintuitive that they'd race requiring lots of trim - that's induced drag that I would think they'd find other methods of trimming out.
Was that broken part even a trim tab really? Or was it a boost tab to reduce the amount of effort needed to manipulate the control surfaces at speed?