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Angle of climb at Vx and glide angle when "overweight": five questions



 
 
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Old November 29th 03, 10:01 PM
David CL Francis
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On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 at 01:19:53 in message
, Greg Esres
wrote:
This is normally at a higher AoA than maximum Cl/Cd and is some
cases is quite close to the stall.

Agreed, except, according to the books, the velocity of minimum power
is ALWAYS less than least drag.


Sounds reasonable and I don't think it is inconsistent.
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