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Old June 19th 06, 05:23 AM posted to rec.aviation.student,rec.aviation.owning
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Default 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 ?