Comments by "Gort" (@gort8203) on "The RFB Fantrainer; Making a Basic Trainer Handle Like a Jet" video.

It's not the placement of the engine closer to the center of gravity that made it handle more like a jet, it's is the reduction in propeller induced yaw due to the ducted fan. That and the fuselage as a flow splitter must have all but eliminated the spiral slipstream effect on the vertical stabilizer.
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@thekraken1173 I don't know that any airplane actually "needs" an "angled engine", but I would say the fact that this airplane didn't have one answers your question.
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@Galil-aces Thanks for proving me correct.
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@Galil-aces No, it clearly is not. Your emoticon indicates lack of maturity, so I'm not surprised you are unable to process new information. The relationship between the engine location and the center of gravity has little to do with making an airplane handle like a jet. The placement of the propeller has much more to do with it. For example, the P-39 had its engine near the center of gravity, but nobody thought of using it as a substitute for jet-like handling. Jet fighters have their engines well aft of the CG. The CG of any stable airplane will be in the neighborhood of 23% of wing Mean Aerodynamic Chord, regardless of where the propeller or engine are placed.
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