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Old 26th November 2006 | 15:53
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fireflybob
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Long long time since I have thought of this but sees to recall it's a square root relationship - if you double the weight, the stall speed increase by a factor of the square root of 2 = (about) 1.4 so in this case the new stall speed is 140 kts.

No doubt those more educated can explain this!

A good book, although quite old, is "Mechanics of Flight" by A.C. Kermode which explains much of this stuff!
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