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To: Conservatrix
An aircraft can stall even with the engine running at 100% effectiveness. These maneuvers are practiced in training, called "power on" and "traffic pattern" stalls.

A stall is dependent on airspeed, angle of attack (the angle of the wing to the relative wind over the wings), the aircraft configuration, and weight. A stall is not the big a deal--every landing in any aircraft is a controlled stall.

What makes a stall "bad" is that you need altitude to recover the aircraft. If you stall too close to the ground.....then bad things can happen.

12 posted on 05/23/2005 3:39:40 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

Thanks for your expert perspective!


17 posted on 05/23/2005 3:44:52 AM PDT by Conservatrix ("He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.")
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To: SkyPilot
"If you stall too close to the ground.....then bad things can happen."

As sometimes happens during dead-stick landings when a pilot tries to stretch a glide... could be what happened here.
24 posted on 05/23/2005 3:53:55 AM PDT by LIConFem (Mein Luftkissenboot ist mit Aalen voll.)
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To: SkyPilot
If you stall too close to the ground.....then bad things can happen.

Bad things man, bad things.

54 posted on 05/23/2005 5:35:59 AM PDT by mc5cents
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