On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 01:29:05 GMT, Robert Moore
wrote:


And I thought that every private pilot was taught that an airplane
can be stalled at any airspeed and any attitude. I assure you that I,
or a gust of sufficient value can stall your SR20 at 120 kts.

By my calculations, if I am flying in cruise it would take a tail wind
gust of 56 knots to stall me. I suspect that would fall in the
category of sever turbulence and I don't think there is any airspeed
that would be safe under those conditions in a single engine normal
category aircraft. In any case a stall at cruise altitude should not
be a problem but parts (like the engine or the wings) falling off the
aircraft would be.