On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 14:41:20 -0500, Tony Verhulst
wrote:


....in a stable descending turn the inside wing is always undergoing a
downward motion relative to the outer wing. This is one cause for the
inside wing to be at a higher AOA than the outer wing, and one reason
for the resulting earlier stall than the outer wing.

Understood! What I don't unerstand is how much washout plays into this
equation. I would suspect that it would reduce this efffect but how much?

Tony V.

Really good question! I don't know. Since washout is, in a sense, a
relative term -- that is washout produces a lower AOA at the wing tips
compared to the AOA at the wing roots -- my guess is that in all cases
where AOA is critical the wing tip washout delays the effects we might
expect from what we see of the nose attitude of the aircraft. But
then, this is really not saying anything new!