Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net> (Marvin Kaye)
To: lml
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 03:27:17 -0400
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From: "Skip Slater" <skipslater@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: [LML] ES stalls
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   Gary
   FWIW, I tried to stall the company ES when I took it on a test flight.
Carsten was with me and my poor unwitting wife was in the back seat watching
the landscape slide by.
   I asked Carsten if I could try a stall and he said sure.  We went to idle
and decelerated (clean).  When the stick was full aft, we had no buffet and
the nose still hadn't dropped off, I asked when the plane would stall,
Carsten said, "this is it".  We were mushing along wings level in a fairly
good rate of descent, but I still had positive roll control.  To recover, I
just relaxed back pressure, smoothly added power and picked up a positive
rate of climb.  I don't recall if the factory ES has stall strips or not.
It was about the most benign stall I can ever recall in a GA airplane.  I
just hope mine behaves as well!  I'm going to try mine without stall strips
(I have AOA) and will add them if I feel the need before I take it to the
paint shop.
   Skip Slater