Originally Posted by Machinbird
In a ballistic trajectory, your aircraft will not stall. This is the core idea behind many tactical maneuvers. In airline use, you would not have to fully adopt a zero g ballistic flight to recover from a potential low speed excursion. 1/10th g is sufficient to keep most things stuck to the floor and still provide almost all the benefit of zero g.
Hi Maching Bird,
Unloading the wing
, was one of the art of Henri Giraud, who did it once... to land in the mountain, "like a bird on the branch", on a 40% slope with fresh snow, who had two times the length of his tail-dragger... The most difficult for him was to turn his aircraft 180° to take-off toward the valley of Grenoble : That way he saved the life of a skier who had fallen, very near from the death, from a cliff.
This art of Giraud has never been and will never be teached
officialy in France : Henri Ziegler for his confidants put the hand on the airspace administration, after he tried to send Giraud to the "STO" during the WWII : Giraud prefered to enter in the french Resistance
(he was the chef-adjoint from the 7th camp du Maquis du Vercors during two years). After the war he became the fabulous glacier pilot
, alone to land on the top of the Mont-Blanc with an aircraft (june 23. 1960).... and landed 53 five times on the "Mont Aiguille"
. He died in his bed
.
The french aviation is just totally unable to do that... near of the ground.
She is also unable to do many other things that Monsieur Giraud did !
Maching Bird, teach that to your students, AF and Airbus will never teach that. They are just unable !
Thank you so much for this very refreshing and sparkling post in the middle of the despair of this modern ... AF447 crash and crew (I dare not to say "pilots"
).