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Old 6th May 2011, 13:15
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What to do when trapped at AoA

This discussion of envelope is very interesting! I have two questions..

1) Machinbird, the F-16 has more thrust that weight, so if you get stuck in this band where you can't pitch your airplane, can't you just firewall the engine and gain speed until you're out of it?

2) On the A330, is it possible that the crew got into a regime where they felt that the only solution was to apply max thrust and this pitched them up and over into a dive? I thought power applied to a large transport 2-engine plane would always tend to pitch up.

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