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Old 12th August 2009 | 17:07
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hawk37
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Microburst,

you say "Both airplanes are equally away from stall but they have not the same ability to manoeuvre, to change trayectory"

Not sure I agree with that. Both aircraft have a 1.69 G capability to maneouvre. If they are at the same tas, that's the same turn radius

I don't see what higher coefficents of lift, flatter aoa curves, more aoa change required to add lift etc have to do with this argument. Your points about that may be true, but a 1.3 x V stall factor should equate to same maneouvrability, flare capability etc as long as the aircraft are at the same tas.

I'm not suggesting the final approach/landing be done at idle power, and I appreciate the spool up times required, and perhaps the added drag of swept wing aircraft at high aoa. My inquiry was about the ability to arrest rates of descent, as I believe you put it in one of your earlier posts, of swept wing aircraft versus straight wing. I don't see why they are different.
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