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Can we have too much stability?

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Eugene

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I get to asked a lot about what I am doing with my airplane and why by non-pilot guys. I am using this picture below to explain to them that my airplane is unstable. I am telling them that it is sort of like driving on top of the pipe versus inside of the pipe. So, I am using situation with directional stability. Aerobatic airplane would be like driving on level table. So sometimes I get to ask about situation where you would be driving inside of round tunnel with pretty small diameter. Would be almost impossible to turn your steering wheel. It would be too stable.

Question for you guys, do we know examples of airplanes that build this way. Maybe by mistake. Where would be almost hard to fly. Simply too stable.

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