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Old 2nd May 2005, 05:37
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All airliners have gizmos to prevent stall and pitch instability that could lead to stall - Boeing uses autoslats, stick pushers, stick nudgers and engine nacelle vortex vanes/chines.

The T-tail 727 configuration has an unrecoverable deep stall characteristic hence the stick pusher or nudger. Some 767 have a stick nudger because of pitch instability - but this was removed by adding nacelle vanes. Everything else Boeing is stick shaker & autoslats .. but these arent too new - Even the Tigermoth has these really cool spring loaded autoslats for stall

Ive heard that AIRBUS has better climb performance in windshear because the computer FBW is better able to nail the stall margins to the ragged edge - then a sweating Boeing pilot with pucker factor ..
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