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Old 28th August 2002 | 22:30
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john_tullamarine
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From: various places .....
and, to confuse the issue further, if the pitch rate is high (memory brings an onset figure of, say, 60-70 degrees per second ? .. something in that region) you enter an interesting regime of accelerated stalling where a shed vortex sits spanwise above the wing causing flow reattachment ... and permits a very significant increase both in alpha and generated lift forces.

... but I don't think that this one has filtered down to the exam circuit as yet ..... fortunately most of the examiners aren't engineers ...
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