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Old 21st Jun 2011, 20:10
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Originally Posted by wmelvin
Although the Wright brothers used angle of incidence for what we now call AOA, my question still stands;
Dassaults Lexique bilingue of aeronautical terms gives these translations:
angle d'incidence = angle of attack/incidence
angle d'incidence critique = stall angle
angle de pente = flight path angle

At 2:10:51 AoA was increasing, FPA was passing through a minimum of about 1.5 degrees up.

For what it's worth, wmelvin's question reminds me that at that point the stall warning computer (the computer exercising that function) must consider its polled airspeed to be valid, to calculate a stall warning threshold of 6 degrees. Iow the ADR DISAGREE condition occurred later.
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