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How would you define "close-coupled"?

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rtfm

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Hi,
While I intuitively understand what close-coupled means, I can't find any reference to how this condition is defined. Visually one can look at an aircraft and say "that plane is close-coupled" - but this has to do with memory and familiarity more than anything else. Would a given plane which appears to be close-coupled, and which had its nose lopped off in a fit of design weirdness suddenly appears no longer to be close-coupled, even though the relationship between the wing and the h-stab has remained constant.

What defines close-coupled-ness?

Confused.

Duncan
 
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