An accelerated stall is one in which the G-load on the airplane is greater than +1G. One place an accelerated stall commonly occurs is in an overbanked turn to final approach. Excessive banking has ...

Initial flight testing explores the characteristics of the airplane as it is initially configured. At this point, the designers have done their best to create a machine that is safe to fly, meets all ...

Last month we started our look at testing the airplane in slow flight and exploring stall characteristics. We discussed lateral/directional behavior last time, so we now turn our attention to the ...