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To: holden
As far as instrumentation error, the stall being triggered at a 6-degree angle of attack (AoA), suggests momentary updraft. I wonder how granular those data are.

The stall initially occurred at (going from memory here, I might be off a couple thousand) 38,000 feet. At that altitude, it doesn't take a lot of AoA to generate a stall condition.

35 posted on 05/27/2011 1:04:28 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo
In the "cookie corner", indeed not, and in the context of a big thunderstorm possibly throwing ice out of its anvil, a stall warning could throw off many a green pilot. Also, at such an altitude, at the rather nose high attitudes consistently mentioned in the BEA's description presumably can't be sustained without exacerbating if not creating a deep stall.

HF

36 posted on 05/27/2011 1:13:37 PM PDT by holden
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