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Old 25th Sep 2011, 22:12
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172driver,

from the EAA article:
The ailerons are a little more than half the size of the originals, so the name of the game on final is speed. "Otherwise, everything gets mushy," he [Leeward] said. "I'm doing 190 mph on final, and touchdown [is] in the 150-160 mph area, which, by the way, Hoot Gibson told me are about the same numbers he uses in a Mig-21. It stalls at 130 mph (...)"
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