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Old 12-21-2011, 09:35 AM
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Static stall: 1G flight, your speed decreases, you increase AoA to compensate. Stall happens when critical AoA is reached.

Accelerated stall: same us above, but there must be >1G. In such condition, you need higher AoA than in 1G flight, because lift is countered not only by weight, but by sum of weight and centrifugal force.

Dynamic stall: you increase AoA past a critical value very quickly, vortex is created at leading edge, lift increases, then vortex detaches and you experience rapid loss of lift and sometimes even a high nose-down pitching.

I think, important things about dynamic stall is: amplitude and rate of AoA change, and increase of lift before the stall.

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