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Old 7th Dec 2020, 15:05
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A basic swept wing tends to stall at the tip, but that's obviously undesirable so there's all sorts of tailoring tricks to avoid that, like washout, higher thickness outboard, stall fences, etc. (And some that didn't catch on, see Republic XF-91)

Where these mitigations are successful and a swept wing stalls root-first, is despite that it's swept, not because of it.

This was originally brought up as a difference between straight and swept wings (which makes it even more wrong with the implication that straight wings stall tip first) as a basis to defend the teaching of the absurd stall recovery technique of not reducing AOA, and using the ailerons while doing so.

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