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Old 14th October 2011 | 11:22
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Pace
 
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Jock dont disagree with one thing you have said.
The point that needs to be made is that different aircraft require different techniques to recover from a stall with MINIMUM HEIGHT LOSS.
Use conventional recovery techniques on the Citation and the VSI will go in a direction you dont want to see it.
It is MINUMUM HEIGHT LOSS recovery for a particular aircraft which should be the goal and they really do differ.

As for the Husky
The mild stall behavior of the Husky was the result of a bit of aerodynamic legerdemain. The wing itself is characterized by an abrupt stall break with little warning -- but when you take a Husky to a high angle of attack, the tail incidence is set so that the tail, which is providing downforce to counteract the down-pitching moment of the wing, stalls first.

When the tail stalls -- with plenty of warning -- the wing pitches down before fully stalling. The result is an apparent mild stall with full aileron control retained throughout.

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