Originally Posted by OK465
....and pulling those numbers out of your glass.
Well of course I am!
Are there any more reliable numbers in FCOM?
Just think about how much altitude your Super Sabre would take to recover if you stalled it
but did not depart it under similar angle of descent and depth of stall figures.
I'll consider what my F-9, F-4 or A-4 would have done.
If you do not mess it up you would do surprisingly well. If you bobble it a bit, you could use up the whole sky. Now extend the results to a massive aircraft of rather high wing loading, low maximum g capability, and an overprotective flight control system.
The key determinants to altitude lost in recovery are smoothly breaking the stall without secondary stalls, promptly achieving Alpha Max, holding that AOA accurately while accelerating as quickly as you can to just short of the speed that g limiting commences and then not exceeding that speed until level.
Isn't that what they taught you in the AF?
