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Old 14th Jan 2015, 05:11
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My understanding of a deep stall is to describe a state where the elevators become inoperable due to insufficient airflow and the aircraft cannot pitch out of the stall. This happens more in T tails because the disturbed air from the wings catches the tail at a certain angle, but I suppose if any heavy aircraft is below a certain speed then elevator deflection may not be sufficient to move the AOA - you need to roll as well.
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