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Old 9th Jul 2019, 23:51
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Rarife
 
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Negative angle of attack

Is it possible to achieve flying at negative angle of attack? Let's skip the part where it would be more like fall than a flight.

Sure in theory it is not a problem. I have airfoil, I put it into a wind tunnel and I can have any aoa I want.

But in reality? Let's asume I have normal real aircraft with some normal angle of incidence. My point is that even if I nose dive the flight path vector will be always "under" the airflow. I can imagine reaching negative alpha during the pushing. For a while but once I fly down it gets and stay possitive.

Even if I look at aoa indicators they have mostly only possitive values and books or so show you lift coeficient curve but I have not seen anything which shows how alpha changes in real flight.
I know it may look simple or ridiculous but I'm really not sure.
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