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Old 30th May 2011, 12:57
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Tailspin Turtle
 
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In (American) aeronautical engineering English, incidence is the angle between the wing and the fuselage. With the exception of a very few airplanes, it is fixed. Angle of attack is the angle between the wing and the relative wind. I don't know the French phrase for angle of attack.

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