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Old 16th December 2013 | 22:15
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DozyWannabe
 
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Originally Posted by HazelNuts39
How does airspeed affect the 'calculated maximum alpha', isn't alpha-max equal to 17.5 degrees?
Not sure - but AoA is a function of airspeed and pitch attitude, no?

I don't understand how an airplane can maintain a constant pitch attitude in essentially level flight while it decelerates from 140 kts to 112 kts,
To the best of my recollection, the pitch attitude was not constant.
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