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Old 12-18-2011 | 07:51 AM
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Originally Posted by mikearuba
It is amazing how backwards a stall recovery in jet aircraft are taught. I'd think the only airplane where you could thrust your way out of a stall would be in a fighter jet!...
Even in a fighter, unless it has waaaaayyy more thrust than weight (F-22; Flanker), you can't motor your way out.

Even if the Thrust to Weight ratio is greater than one, you still have to account for drag. Example: if you have a fighter with 20,000lbs of thrust, and it can do 650 indicated, then it stops accelerating, then at 650 kts, the drag is 20,000lbs.

That is a lot of drag.

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