Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board have recovered a cockpit voice recorder from the primary crash site where a Learjet collided with a busy roadway in South Florida last week, killing all nine people on board.
as you go higher the stall speed and the overspeed speed become closer and closer together
fascinating!
it’s been a long time since I exercised my pilot cert so I’m very rusty with my aviation science, but I’d’ve guessed that lower air density meant less drag and less stress on the airframe, and I’d have assumed that the wings losing lift from too little air flow would correlate pretty closely with the forces that cause overspeed
how does it work that an airframe’s max rated airspeed doesn’t change at the same rate as a level flight stall speed?
fascinating!
it’s been a long time since I exercised my pilot cert so I’m very rusty with my aviation science, but I’d’ve guessed that lower air density meant less drag and less stress on the airframe, and I’d have assumed that the wings losing lift from too little air flow would correlate pretty closely with the forces that cause overspeed
how does it work that an airframe’s max rated airspeed doesn’t change at the same rate as a level flight stall speed?