PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - AF 447 Thread No. 8
View Single Post
Old 25th Apr 2012, 08:05
  #165 (permalink)  
HazelNuts39
 
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: France - mostly
Age: 84
Posts: 1,682
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Recovery trajectories

Originally Posted by CONF iture #98
No way 10 degrees ND was enough to go anywhere, be it at 5000, 20000, or 35000 feet on the way down when the AoA was already above 30 degrees.
Well, I thought so too, but changed my mind after looking at Owain Glyndwr's data. With Owain's help I did a similar analysis and got similar results shown in the graphs below. The second graph shows how AoA slowly reduces until the airplane is unstalled.


Last edited by HazelNuts39; 25th Apr 2012 at 21:01. Reason: Graphs corrected
HazelNuts39 is offline