Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #25712
From: Marvin Kaye <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [LML] To stall or not to stall? That is my question.
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:59:48 -0400
To: <lml>
Posted for "terrence o'neill" <troneill@charter.net>:

 Dan,
 Just excellent comments.
 I haven't flown our L235/320 yet, but have done stalls in my untested
experimentals:  Waco tail-prop Model W,  AristoCraft II,  Magnum PickUp,
Mitchell modified B-10, and our modified Dragonfly... and researched a lot of
stuff with the guys like Long P. Yip at Langley, especially the tandem-wing
configurations.  Dan's comments are  welcome 'words to the wise'.
 The comments of these pro-pilots strongly suggest weak-to-negligible pitch
recovery at aft CGs when the AOA gets into the spin AOA range, 30 to 50
degrees.  Does anyone have a windtunnel model with which a university with a
tunnel could check this?
 Sounds to me like this excellent aircraft can easily be made safer without
performance or handling loss, as I've commented before.
 But for the time I intend to avoid stalls  by developing habits flying and
using an AOA.
 T.
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