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Old 9th Mar 2010, 13:27
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jhurditch
 
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Heard something interesting in my A/C engineering lecture today that was
"If you wish to increase speed of an aircraft you do not increase thrust, you must move the stick instead, aircraft speed is controlled by the stick due to angle of incidence". this hardly made sense to me as i would consider a stall to be a situation in which most thrust is required as a/c speed is lowest and during landing you would not require full power to descend. can someone explain this to me more clearly.

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