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>They lengthened the plane without redesigning the rest of the components to compensate.

Not exactly. It's the placement of the newer, larger engines that's largely responsible for the different handling characteristics.

>This changed fundamental aerodynamics on how it flies.

Yes.

>The plane is dynamically unstable.

No, it just has different handling characteristics in some parts of the flight envelope.




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