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Old 14th Jul 2007, 11:29
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Swept wings pitch up at the stall due to the tip stalling first (for what ever reason..),
Oh gosh, do they really?
Well, having actually fully stalled a swept wing aeroplane (Lockheed TriStar) while a Lockheed test pilot was in the RHS keeping an eye on progress, strange as it may seem to most here, the nose pitched gently down...not up.

Maybe Lockheed, in their infinite wisdom, got it wrong.
All this would have slipped passed the FAA, not to mention the UKCAA, as TriStars were on the British civil register as well.

Me thinks many here had better have a rethink about the whole situation..
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