"Kyle Boatright" wrote


Like I was trying to say last night, the AA-1 and Tomahawk both have
hershey
bar wings and stall strips.

KB

The AA-1 had them more to make the high speed stall more noticeable, as I
recall reading , somewhere.

The AA-1 was hot little number, for that HP, and people changing to it from
slower designs could have hardly ever have produced a real mean high speed
stall in their earlier planes, as most other designs of that HP and period
were close to 50% slower.

The stall strips were there to get the pilot's attention, earlier, before
they got into trouble.

Or so I recall reading.

Tomahawks just were nasty to handle in a stall, because of the T-tail way
out of the prop blast, and they need to stall earlier to keep elevator
control? I'm guessing about that one, just from what I have heard.
--
Jim in NC