Originally Posted by
Tankengine
Close, but no cigar!
Stall angle of attack is greater than that for max lift coefficient for obvious reasons. Even textbooks get this wrong sometimes, you need to look at polar curves.
And what is your definition of "stall"? Your "obvious reasons" are "obvious" in the case only of the intuitive definition of "stall".
You'll forgive me if I continue - for the time being at least - to believe that the authors of
Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators got it right.