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As it pertains to the rounded tail, I wonder what it would take to make a tail section that lifts like the nose of a C5 Galaxy. Could a clever contraption of torsion springs and hydraulic dampers could do the heavy lifting?
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Sure, why not. But you're fighting gravity.
Take the same contraption. split in halves and turn it 90°. You find you need the length added on each side with the single hinge. Convert to a Watts four-bar linkage. Now you only need to accommodate the curvature, not the length of the tail.