High Speed Stall

[Jig Peter]

coffin corner

There used to be a legend, in the days of the de Havilland Vampire fighter, that there was a "secret host" of lost Vampires in orbit at the height at which "high" (for those days) Mach No. loss of control and the stalling speeds coincided, so they couldn't go up, and couldn't get down ...

But then there was also the legend that steep turns in a Tiger Moth were dangerous because the "W" arrow, lengthening under the acceleration, would get too long and puncture the tyres ...
At least that showed that us cadets had been following the instructor's drawings on the blackboard
PS 'Tis a light-hearted day when you can see the sun for once through the clouds ...

Edited by Jig Peter @ 1849 CET - Hairy Dai Nammicks (and, at 1851: spelling)