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Old 07-12-2012, 09:22 AM
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Short, fat rockets need less margin; long, slender rockets often need more, or so I'm told. Perhaps "calibers" of stability are the wrong measurement. Possibly we should be using some relationship to the overall length of the rocket instead.
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