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Or maybe the P-51 is tail heavy and the
horizontal stabilizer is a lifting surface, like with the P.180 Avanti?


That would create parasitic drag, which is just as bad.

There's no way these guys are flying deliberatly "dirty". Hanging all that
pitched up/down crap out in the wind is just another form of air brake.

LLoyd