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All depends on the horizontal stab incidence. I think the trim tab
should be doing very little at high speed.

Yep, and the stabilizer is going to have its incidence angle set to produce
_minimumum_ drag at the desired racing speed.

Therefore, one can almost completely rule out the possibility that losing
the trim tab would have immediately resulted in full-up elevator.

LLoyd