"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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"Stubby" wrote in message
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Don't forget the stall is caused by the elevator losing lift.

No, that's incorrect. There is such a thing as an elevator stall, but it's
very different from a normal stall. In typical small planes, an elevator
stall does not occur unless there is tail icing, or else a CG that's too
far forward when you apply substantial up elevator.

If you have an elevator stall during a landing flare, the nose snaps
abruptly downward, potentially damaging the nose gear.

That's why the nose drops.

No, not in a normal stall. Rather, the wings produce insufficient lift and
so the plane accelerates downward. The plane weathervanes into the new
relative wind, dropping the nose.

You can find an excellent discussion of the physics of stalling he
http://www.av8n.com/how/

--Gary

I did not reply to him because even with the lack of a smiley I thought he
said that in jest. If he is serious then....?

Allen