Bill Denton wrote:

You then take an airplane to 1,000 ft AGL, and trim it so it is flying
perfectly straight and level, but this time you completely close the
throttle WHILE ATTEMPTING TO MAINTAIN THE ORIGINAL PITCH. In a short time,
the wings will stop producing enough lift to keep the airplane in flight, it
will pitch down and impact the earth, even though some of the airplane's
component parts may still be flying.

Well, perhaps some might. If you maintain a level pitch attitude in my aircraft
with the throttle closed, the plane will simply descend. The airspeed will be
between 60 to 70 mph with 0 degrees of flaps (stall is about 55 in that
configuration). If you want mine to stall, you'll have to get the nose pretty
high.

Now, if I were to close the throttle and attempt to maintain *altitude* by
raising the nose, she'd stall. When that happens, the nose repeatedly drops a
bit and then goes back up, and the plane descends at a moderate rate of speed in
a nose high attitude.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.