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Old 6th August 2018 | 19:47
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Originally Posted by Capt Pit Bull
Well, AOA will be cracking on for 180 degrees. That might have a small part to play.....

+ve airspeed and Alpha(plus Beta for 3d) gives us a system that covers all the bases for where the air is coming from.
Or you can say that the airspeed is negative. I think communication is goddamn impossible sometimes. One time my boss was trying to tell me there's no such thing as negative lift. Definitions and accounting is like 99.9% of most problems.
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