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by GregTravis 2645 days ago
It wants to keep pitching up because the engine cowlings are now far ahead of both the center of gravity and the center of lift. And the cowlings generate significant lift themselves. Aerodynamically they act as levers that pull the nose up and the higher the angle of attack, the more they pull. That is dynamic instability and as I point out you want to have ejection seats in any dynamically unstable aircraft (ir fighter jets)