Bill Denton wrote:

You are both right and wrong on this one. Obviously, different parts of an
aircraft stall at different speeds. This is why a stall in most light
aircraft is generally benign: the stabilizer continues to fly long after the
wing has stalled, resulting in the pitch-down generally required for stall
recovery.

You're correct that the stabilizer may stall at a different point than the wing,
but the stabilizer on a traditional (ie. non-canard) aircraft pushes down on the
tail, not up. If it stalls before the wing, the nose falls because there's
nothing hold the tail down. If the wing stalls first, the nose falls because
there's nothing holding the nose up.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.