Originally Posted by OK465
BTW on page 92, it shows max altitude of 37,924 reached at 2:11:10 with ISIS CAS of 184 recovered 3 seconds earlier, so they were still climbing, at least ballistically, from 207 down to 184. The benign 'mush' started at this time??
Yes, at 2:11:10 the AoA is well past the maximum lift and the LF has dropped to 0.75 g. One could say the "mush" starts as early as 02:10:52. Up to this time the normal load factor (=lift, essentially) rises commensurately with AoA (page 43), then starts to flatten off while AoA continues to increase.