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Old 18th Feb 2018, 04:10
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vilas
 
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You must balance the need for unstalling the wing against hitting the ground.How can you argue against this? Silly and very dangerous.
The need for unstalling is paramount because that's what is causing loss of control. Perhaps what you meant was need for early recovery of flight path after unstalling against hitting ground. That's quite another thing. Unstalling the wing is the first action of eventual flight path recovery, may be sooner or later. But as I have said earlier if you are guilty of full stall near the ground there are no guarantees. In India in early days of the MIG21, the phenomenon of superstalling of delta wing wasn't understood correctly where once the AOA went past the critical the drag rise was huge. You needed to put the nose down to unstall because power won't do it. With ground rushing up it needed courage to do that and there have been cases when it wasn't done the aircraft has crashed with full after burner on

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