Now, the discussion about pros and cons about low and high main wing have long been going on, and one of my 2002 plane magazines had an article about it with Beech, Piper, Cessna and a NASA engineer but what about the tail? About one plane I read that the tail was mounted high to be clear of turbulent air from the main wings while operating with extended flaps and planes such as the Commander does have the wing over normal low positions like for instance most Pipers. Cessnas also have low tails, except a variation of the 187 (I still haven't found a picture of it) but their main wings are high mounted and when looking at even the low sleek Cardinal the tail sits a lot lower but is it low enough to avoid turbulent air from flaps? And then the other biggie, something said against the T-Tail namely lack of function during stalls. Of course I'm sure there are many other factors and just how much less control the tail gets is of course also a factor since while some might loose a bit of control it's not necessarily enough to give problems. Note: One of the reasons I wanted my concept to have YF-23-style V-tail elevators was also that at least part of it shoudl always be in clear air, the rudder function was on the main wing btw so not like the V-tail Bonanza.
And speaking of tails, what about the stabilator vs seperate elevator. The original Cardinal had tail-first stall problems that was said to be cured by a adding something at the trailing edge and limiting the downward travel, but that last part doesn't sound smart to me though. How is a stabilator vs convetional elevator in terms of stability, feel/feedback and maneuvering ability? By feel I also wonder if the stabilator might require more force to move depending on where the rotation axis is and how good a feedback it has. I never did change altitude in the Cardinal I flew in, just did some mild turns but it felt nice, apart from the semi-loose yoke (I screw was a mm loose I think from the handle itself to the rod, you could feel a microclonk when pulling in one side of it towards yourself).
I did plan on attaching a schematic with a plane profile and simple lines for airflow but I couldn't find good enough drawings of the planes I needed so I hope you got a good imagination
Frank
P.S. I just checked online that my spelling "Manouvrering" is wrong that it should be "Maneuvering", sorry about that, not sure where I got that from except maybe from the other variations between UK and US english spelling like center vs centre and liter vs litre. If I can't remember a spelling of a word I use my natural analytical knowledge of a language to deduce how it's spelled, even if it's a imported word but this time it failed, at least it's a mistake without bad consequences.