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Old 07-23-2011, 01:47 PM   #13 (permalink)
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One issue I have, and since you're an aerospace engineer maybe you can tell me whether I'm right or not, is that I think the physics engine is calculating longitudinal static stability wrong. A rocket with the center of pressure behind the center of gravity should be stable and tend to maintain its course. I feel like either CoP or CoG is being calculated incorrectly, which is compounded by the obscenely thick atmosphere, causing an unrealistically high tendency of rockets to be unstable at low altitudes.
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