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Old 24th Mar 2012, 03:51
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And Presto! we have some numbers and they show that,
"If you do not mess it up you would do surprisingly well."
Thank you HazelNuts.

The point about unloading relates to rapidly accelerating away from the zone where it is very easy to achieve secondary stalls. Once the stall is broken, the aircraft will accelerate rapidly, but if a human applies the g too rapidly in his haste to pull up, a secondary stall can result and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Laying on g (in Alt2 law) without an AOA indicator while the airspeed is changing rapidly is tricky.

Just remember that HN39's chart has the following initial condition:
The maneuver assumes constant total energy (thrust = drag), and begins after the airplane has been pitched down to unstall.
We still have to consider how much altitude might be lost in pitching the aircraft down.
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