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Subject: Re: Europa-List: wheel landings
From: Kingsley Hurst <hurstkr@growzone.com.au>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:00:35

> BUT the answer to the monwheel Europa is that it should be landed on the
> stall, so that the she's not flying when you touch.

Hello Ferg and others,

With the sum total of a couple of landings in a mono, I speak from 
observation rather than experience.

When people talk about stalling the mono on landing (the ideal thing to do 
IMHO), I cannot help but wonder how the mono CAN stall unless the tail wheel 
only is on the ground and the main wheel considerably above.  My reasoning 
is that because the deck angle of the fuse (with main and tail wheels on the 
ground) is around 7 degrees from memory.  (too lazy to check the manual at 
the moment) and the wing incidence is 2.5 degrees, this means the angle of 
attack of the wings with both wheels on the ground is around 9.5 degrees. 
If I remember correctly, a wing stalls with an AOA of around 14 degrees. 
Considering that when landing the wing is also in the influence of 'ground 
effect', can somebody explain to me how the wing can possibly properly stall 
with such a low AOA ?

Cheers
Kingsley 



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