Timeline for In case a plane stalls, what should stall first, the tip or the root of the Wing? Why?
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| Aug 12, 2020 at 6:17 | comment | added | AutoBaker | @Mark thanks for clarifying, I think I must have misunderstood when I read it, was a while back. #thought: I wonder if a small fixed canard just in front of the root would have created more lift? | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 20:31 | comment | added | Mark | @5Diraptor, with a pure elliptical wing, the entire wing stalls simultaneously. The Spitfire's wing had a slight twist that produced turbulent root stall that buffeted the airplane, giving warning that the rest of the wing was about to stall. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 12:57 | comment | added | AutoBaker | Interesting. I think in the early marks of the Supermarine Spitfire, they purposely introduced a feature where the wing twisted slightly so that the tips stalled first. This was meant to give pilots early warning of a stall, as the tips would start vibrating as they began to stall, giving them time to recover. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 9:29 | comment | added | vsz | @SolarMike : And I've been practicing stalls in a glider, and it wasn't by far as drastic. I was certainly not falling like a stone (unless I deliberately went into a spin). | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 9:27 | comment | added | Solar Mike | @vsz well, been in a microlight and stalled: stomach tends to join brain in head... but that’s the difference between theory and experience. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 5:22 | comment | added | vsz | @SolarMike : Not really, not always. It still has better lift then a stone, it's just that the lift is no longer enough to maintain altitude. There are some aircraft, like the An-2, which behave like a parachute, when stalled. | |
| Aug 10, 2020 at 20:07 | comment | added | Solar Mike | If you hit stall in an aircraft then the aircraft falls out of the sky like a stone... You have to get the nose down to reestablish the airflow over the wings... | |
| Aug 10, 2020 at 19:19 | vote | accept | Rajakr | ||
| Aug 10, 2020 at 19:09 | history | answered | Satya | CC BY-SA 4.0 |