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Old 1st Mar 2014, 15:18
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Brian Abraham
 
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Both the F/A-18E and the AV-8B (JF should be able to shed light) suffered from "wing drop", "wing rock", "abrupt asymmetric wing stall", or "heavy wing", in the transonic regime. The reason? Shock induced separation causing abrupt alternating wing stall.

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