Todd Pattist wrote:

The airbrakes are designed for this purpose.

Not in any modern glider I know of. Anywhere close to
vertical will exceed Vne with the brakes open.

The elevator is designed for that purpose (getting out of the vertical
cone where a glider will exceed VNE with airbrakes) ;-)

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Denis

R. Parce que ça rompt le cours normal de la conversation !!!
Q. Pourquoi ne faut-il pas répondre au-dessus de la question ?