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| | F-16 deep stall (Mary Shafer) |
 | | That is, you have to pull up to a higher alpha and then push down though the deep stall region very quickly (this is sort of the reverse of the cobra, if you see what I mean--it's an overshoot that carries you through the positive augmented C_m_q region). |
 | | Falling out of the sky in a deep stall is not a happy event and to my mind, it's a severe deficiency in the airframe. |
 | | Let's think about balance here--if you want to balance a wooden pencil on your finger, you have to put your finger, which is the center of rotation, under the longitudinal center of gravity, which is closer to the eraser than to the tip. |
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