Plastic planes are fast but landing speed too high
Andrew Sarangan wrote:
It is not the approach speed that make the wreckages look so
horrifying. It is their abrupt stall characteristics and the fact that
composite materials melt and vaporize when under fire. I have seen a
Lancair after a wreck and I could only identify the metal pieces.
Everything else was gone.
Is the stall characteristics inherently abrupt if the plane's wing
loading is high ?
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