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Old 17th May 2010, 12:19
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BOAC
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We owe a huge vote of thanks to C-SAR and 'helpers' - it is incredible that we have such pictures here.

On the question of the angle of cut on the bushes - if that was a real (and not distorted) angle it could not be FPA or we would be looking at a smoking hole in front of the mosque. I would suggest it may well be a rapidly down-pitching tail section?

A4 - a question from a non-AB pilot - you say 'no alpha floor' below 100RA but then you describe the Habsheim AB as reducing pitch to 'prevent a stall'. Is that a different mechanism? I thought I understood the idea of 'alpha-floor' was to give as close to alpha-max as allowed? What function ran in pitch at Habsheim?
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