Routine post-maintenance check flight turns catastrophic.
The term stall usually suggests a steeply climbing airplane or the cessation of motion, but we should remember from our initial ground school that an airfoil can be stalled at any attitude and any ...
Turboprop aircraft are highly susceptible to icing, which significantly compromises aerodynamics by increasing stall speed and making them prone to dangerous tailplane stalls, a phenomenon often ...
“Post-stall maneuvering” gives a plane excellent maneuverability—but the equipment needed to boost it comes with tradeoffs, as all advanced aircraft features do. The post-stall maneuvers, like the ...
Three people died when a Raytheon Hawker 800XP crashed during a post-maintenance stall test flight in Michigan on 16 October, with pilots electing to perform the test themselves after being unable to ...