"Paul Sengupta" wrote in message
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[...] So rather than just looking for one that
goes faster, you're looking for "a good one".

Which is fine. But since there are things that could hurt cruise speed
without affecting the stall, it just makes no sense to rely on stalling
behavior to "know" the cruise speed (even if you could actually determine
the actual cruise speed by stalling the airplane, which you can't).

If you care about cruise speed, you need to actually measure cruise speed.
As Julian already said, doing so is the reliable way to determine cruise
speed.

Pete