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Old 25th Apr 2012, 18:04
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Owain Glyndwr
 
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IIRC, as looking at the traces will tell you, at 02:12:45 they were at 10 deg nose down with full up elevator and flight idle power. The aircraft, as I have said before, has no natural nosedown pitch at the stall. It responds to applied elevator and thrust. In this case it seems that reducing thrust to idle or thereabouts produced enough pitch to get to -10 deg.
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