Stranger, you're right about the Caravelle's horizontal stabilizer less then halfway up on the tail. I thought it looked kind of unusual when I first flew on the plane out of MAD, kind of like the designers couldn't decide where to put it on the empanage.

Machdiamond thanks for the info, and it's definately not boring. Your info about the deep stall characteristic of the T-tails finally answered my wondering about why most the of the RJ's seem to land in a flat touchdown rather then the nose-up final of the larger, lower tailed aircraft. Keeping the tail surface above the height of the wing vortices for the T-tails would result in more of a level three-point landing. Might even explain why some of my MS FlightSim98 and Pro-Pilot simulator flights begin to "porpoise" when I try steep takeoffs with high-tailed aircraft.

bj-21.