Factors Affecting Stall Speed
Hello All,. .. .I've been told that the center-of-gravity location of an airplane affects the stall speed. This is news to me. I'm talking about a conventional airplane with positive static stability and not a fly-by-wire airplane with relaxed static stability. I know that the stall speeds vary due to altitude, gross weight, configuration and bank angle and the only way an airplane can stall is by exceeding the CLmax angle-of-attack. This person is telling me that an airplane with a center-of-gravity near the aft limit will stall at a slower airspeed than an airplane with the center-of-gravity near the forward limit. Does this person know something I don't know? I've checked my aerodynamics texts from college and none of them have any information on this. If you respond, can you please give the reference you used? Thanks in advance.. .. . <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="cool.gif" />