Originally Posted by wickedsprint

Entirely NOT true. Some airplanes, a la' seriously overpowered aerobatic airplanes and some fighters can hover...and recover in the vertical. How critically stalled is your wing when it's stopped in flight

If you have enough power, you can maintain a 0 degree AOA while climbing straight up and continuing to accelerate...perfect example...a rocket...or an F-15..or anything else with a positive thrust to weight ratio.

There are several ways one can decrease AOA of the wing, accelerate without climbing, lower the nose and let gravity help, or have so much power gravity doesn't matter, no matter how stalled your wing is.


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