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Old 30th Jan 2018, 19:34
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BRDuBois
 
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I sure wouldn't have thought of it if I hadn't seen it in the sim. It's like a hydrofoil flipping over. Once the plane's longitudinal axis was vertical, it's all ballistics and not much in aerodynamics, I'd think. At that point everything is in stall, and the rotational momentum from the pitch-up continues until the tail is first.
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