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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
The horizontal stabilizers were slanted down to improve stabilizer effectiveness when supersonic. The wingtips were canted up to improve lateral (roll) stability.

During flight test, the USN wanted McDonnell Douglas to increase the wing dihedral by 3 degrees. However, McDonnell Douglas had already built the manufacturing tooling. Canting the wing tips 11 degrees at the wing fold had the same effect.

46 posted on 05/03/2019 5:19:48 PM PDT by FtrPilot
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To: FtrPilot

Since they have an add on look, I’ll still go with remedial.

I can’t remember this kind of stuff on to many planes.

The F16 has those two fins in back but they aren’t as drastic as the F4.


47 posted on 05/03/2019 6:08:04 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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