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Old 10th Jul 2012, 23:08
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Lyman,

At the end of the recording the flight path angle relative to earth was -45.2 degrees, and the pitch attitude was +16.2 degrees. In still air those values would correspond to an AoA of 61.4 degrees. With a tailwind component of 24 kt the AoA could have been about 70 degrees.
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