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Old 8th Feb 2015, 12:38
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I believe 14,000 ft is the highest that any manufacturer flight-tests stall characteristics nowadays.

Couple that with the low-speed limitations of Computational Fluid Dynamics, and we have a whole flight regime for which wide-ranging reliable data doesn't appear to exist.
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