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Old 1st Jul 2008, 13:25
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Please remember that fuselage attitude (nose high, nose low...) DOES NOT equal AOA. It's a matter of how the angle of INCIDENCE is set by the manufacturer. The BAC-111 and the B-52 are excellent examples of the incidence angle set so high that the fuselage is actually nose-down on final.
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