Originally Posted by
wmelvin
I assume the reference to "incidence angle" is what Americans call "Flight Path Angle"...
I think you're a victim of Google translatese.... it almost certainly refers to AoA, and
not FPA.
My apologies, but I really can no longer be bothered to spend twenty minutes to go through the French original to find the text in question AND the misleading translation, every time one of these issues crops up, unless somebody pays me.
Most professional translators will give you the same answer.....
No insult to Google translation meant... they have become a lot better the last couple of years!