by dontworrybehappy » Fri Sep 28, 2012 6:58 pm
You obviously know nothing about airplanes. Making both wings stall together is an ideal stall characteristic!
EVERY PLANE HAS A "TENDENCY TO STALL" AT SOME AIRSPEED. It's not the stall that kills, it's the spin. Look man, I'm a pilot and mechanic. I've studied planes for many many years. Airplanes with "nasty stall characteristics" almost always drop a wing. If a plane drops both wings at the same time, that's great, and easy to recover from. Stall one that likes to flip on its back and you'd better have altitude or you're a smoking hole in the ground. During flight training they make you stall the plane coordinated (ball in the middle) and uncordinated (ball to either side) and the stalls coordinated are docile, straight ahead stalls. Stall it uncoordinated and you go into a spin.
A heavy airplane with a high wing loading is going to stall fairly easily, that's a given. But those airplanes also tend to be faster, look at a fighter jet. The F-16 stalls at some ungodly speed, but it can also GO an ungodly speed.
So no, my argument hasn't been shot down at all. In fact, your own link proved me right. As they always say, the best kind of pwnage is self pwnage. There is nothing anyone can do to make an airplane not stall. None of the fighters had STOL kits, so get them slowed down and they will stall. Stall straight ahead is wonderful, whip you on your back will wake up even the most tired pilot.
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