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Old 11th May 2012 | 19:33
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Mad (Flt) Scientist
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in agreement with Pilot_DAR here

For a given configuration etc. a wing will stall at a critical AoA. That critical AoA is NOT a function of my current AoA - if my stall AoA is 10 degrees, it doesn't matter if I'm at 1 or 9 right now - 10 is still the critical AoA.

Indeed, even under 'g', if we ignore wing deformation, the wing still stalls at the same critical AoA - and generates the same lift coefficient as it does so. The increased stall speed under 'g' is how the load factor is compensated for, since the CL can't change.

I *can* think of some esoteric ways to have current AOA affect apparent stall speed, but they depend on some quite convoluted systems architecture and in most cases are artificial, and would in fact not be seen if you did a 'true' stall.
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