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Old 18th Jun 2009, 20:30
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ttcse;
While I understand that basic crude swept wings tend to tip-stall and subsequently the center-of-lift goes forward (enhancing the unhelpful nose-high attitude), are the swept wings of modern transports fairly immune from this with normal loading?
I was wondering about this as well - Davies discusses this at length in his section on stalls and super-stalls but the last (3rd, 1971) edition was more than thirty-five years ago; the design of wings and chord sections has changed dramatically since then and I would like very much to know what handling characteristics might be reasonably expected during the approach to stall and the stall itself and the characteristic of pitch-up as the stall moves inward from the tips and the center of lift moves forward.

This may be tech-forum stuff but it is a current topic here so once again I am seeking a contextual response rather than a non-related discussion on the stalling characteristics of modern transports.
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