That's why the plane is designed so the rest of the airframe balances it out. The plane can be considered more or less balanced, but designs with a long nose in front of the wings in the canard configuration, like the Bloodhawk, have a nose-down tendency at low speeds as the back of the aircraft is buoyed up by the wings while the nose is not. Another function of canard wings is to keep the nose up at low speed.<br/><br/>As for the launcher, doesn't it start up the engine when the plane is over the hatch?