ORIGINAL: Steve Steinbring
You can stall an airplane at any attitude, at any airspeed, when you exceed L/D max which is the lift to drag ratio!
You don't stall when you exceed L/D max you stall when you exceed the wing stall angle of attack (AOA). The Stall AOA is (usually)way beyond the L/D Max AOA.
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