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Old 24th February 2011 | 15:16
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Rivet gun
 
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Try this link, near the end is a graph of CLmax vs mach number for the DC9.

High Lift Systems: Predicting CLmax

You can see that the maximum coeficient of lift decreases above about M 0.3.

This is one of the reasons why indicated stalling speed (CAS) increases with altitude (the other being compressibility error).
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