Post by Admin on Nov 19, 2019 9:13:26 GMT -5
How to win a dogfight
"The nose of my Viper suddenly stopped turning. The wings became heavy and mushy, and I couldn’t get the plane to turn or accelerate. What the heck happened!? It was as if I had flown into a bubble of molasses."
"AOA is a direct measurement of what angle ‘the wind’ is hitting the wing. Predictably, we can describe an expected performance for that wing (and thus the airplane) at every conceivable angle the wind hits the airfoil. At some ‘critical’ angle, the wing can no longer produce lift, lift over the wing fails, and the airfoil stalls."
"Interestingly, this concept is known as the Critical Angle of Attack, and it never changes. Lift fails at that angle every time for that particular wing. This critical AOA stays the same for that aircraft at any weight, density altitude, temperature, and G."
"The nose of my Viper suddenly stopped turning. The wings became heavy and mushy, and I couldn’t get the plane to turn or accelerate. What the heck happened!? It was as if I had flown into a bubble of molasses."
"AOA is a direct measurement of what angle ‘the wind’ is hitting the wing. Predictably, we can describe an expected performance for that wing (and thus the airplane) at every conceivable angle the wind hits the airfoil. At some ‘critical’ angle, the wing can no longer produce lift, lift over the wing fails, and the airfoil stalls."
"Interestingly, this concept is known as the Critical Angle of Attack, and it never changes. Lift fails at that angle every time for that particular wing. This critical AOA stays the same for that aircraft at any weight, density altitude, temperature, and G."