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Old 5th Jul 2011, 07:08
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Originally Posted by bubbers44
HZ39, when their high pitch reduced to 5 degrees after their 7,000 fpm climb bringing it down to 5 degrees doesn't that seem like what would happen after their zoom energy had been used up? At that point they were in a deep stall and about to fall like a rock.
At that point they had about 215 kCAS and were not stalled. If they had maintained that nose-down push a few seconds longer they would have avoided the stall altogether. Instead they pulled nose-up, increasing pitch, AoA and rate of climb, using the remaining zoom energy to reach FL380, and stalled.

P.S. Fourth update on TE-plots Fig1v4, Fig2v4, and Fig3v4.

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