Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #36197
From: Marvin Kaye <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [LML] David Hickman Crash
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:41:47 -0400
To: <lml>
Posted for "terrence o'neill" <troneill@charter.net>:

 Should we be looking only at the stall characteristics of the main wing?
 Should we not also consider that the stabilizing wing, the horizontal
stabilizer-elevator, also stalls?
 At what angle of attack does the Lancair horizontal tail stall?
 Would not the unstalling power of the horizontal stabilizer-elevator be
reduced at least by half when it stalls too?
 How can the tail stall be delayed or even prevented, so as to retain for the
pilot an ability to unstall his wing promptly?
 Wouldn't the tail's stall AOA be delayed ujntil high AOAs by reducing it's
aspect ratio, and/or it's leading edge's sweepback to an angle greater than 26
degrees?
 ARe 'airspeeds' useful to highly experienced pilots when the aikrplane is
outside the 1G flight envelope?  Are AOAs?
 
 Terrence O'Neill
 N211AL
 L235/320, tail being modified
 
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