At 10:18 PM 7/3/2004 -0400, you wrote: >RE: A given airplane always stalls at the same angle of attack, not speed or >attitude. > >On my first BFR, my instructor set out to disprove that theory. He had me >keep applying power while continuing to increase the angle of attack. By the >time I got to full power, we were almost hanging on the prop and the >airspeed was reading zero and no stall. I found that very interesting.
Angle of attack is the relative wind (not the path of the airplane through the air) over the airfoil. The prop contributes to that air flow. Larry Severson Fountain Valley, CA 92708 (714) 968-9852 lar...@socal.rr.com
