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Old August 2nd 03, 10:35 AM
Ian Johnston
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:27:46 UTC, "Marske Flying Wings"
wrote:

: No this is where you are quite wrong! There is pleanty of up elevator on the
: trailing edge of the main wing.... the air going over the top is separating
: due to the high angle of attack and this makes the elevator ineffective, so
: the nose lowers slightly and the glider picks up airspeed and it resumes
: normal flight.

Which is, effectively, exactly what he said...

: "spektr" wrote in message
: ...

: So you are flying a glider with insufficient up elevator to cause a stall

Ian