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Old 2nd Dec 2019, 05:53
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sky9

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I was going through the Boeing update on the MAX and came across their definitions page
https://www.boeing.com/commercial/73...e-updates.page
Their definition is interesting:
Angle of Attack (AOA) – the difference between the pitch angle (nose direction) of the airplane and the angle of the oncoming wind.

I was never aware that the AOA measured wind; I always thought in 35 years of flying that it measured the angle of the oncoming airflow. To think I spent my whole aviation career with a misapprehension.
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