02-09-2010, 11:51 PM
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A small addition that should make them more predictable and improve the glide performance would be a small set of deployable tail surfaces that would flip out near the nose at ejection. This would make a backslider essentially an axisymmetrical standard-configuration glider with an unusually long fuselage! (Guided missiles such as the Sparrow are powered airplanes of this type, and missiles like the Sidewinder are axisymmetrical tandem-wing or canard airplanes.)
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