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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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