>>1413934the older homebuilts did because nobody the tail was mostly nonexistent
in the 70s horizontal stabilizers started getting popular, and lots of designs with whale tails popped up
in the late 90s they got a hardon for centerline thrust, and they started to get really tall and hard to get into
the modern euro designs have kept horizontal stabilizers but mostly abandoned centerline thrust so they could get the 'sports car look'