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Old 15th May 2005 | 23:13
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Rainboe
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I believe tailplanes are less susceptible to stalling for these reasons- they have less sweepback to delay stalling until after the wing has stalled, and their cross section shape is less prone to stalling than the wing root area. Should the tailplane start stalling, it will lose its downforce hence reducing angle of attack and mitigating the wing stall. In real life, it is the wing root area where the stall commences, and I think remains unless you really blow it- the wing tips and tailplane remain unstalled. In a Trident type T tail superstall, the whole shooting match is stalled and permanently unrecoverable.
I had the deep misfortune to be copilot on VC10 stall approach tests. I found 95 knots in a VC10 deeply unfunny and swore they would never get me up again on those.
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