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Originally posted by beepbeep
No, I mean Idicated Air Speed, not True Air Speed...at those heights IAS is not high at all as air is very thin. You have to fly very fast indeed just to keep the plane from stalling. If you are in "coffin corner" and make a sharp turn you can have inner wing stalling and outer one not. It's more pronounced on U2's but SR-71's were quite demanding to fly at those heights as well according to Crickmore...
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true, true. I just misunderstood your point. you were making two points and snuck in a third one on me
btw: inner wing stall can happen on any aircraft if airspeed is too low. remember the "dead man's turn?"