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Old 01-10-2005 | 03:54 PM
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Jim Thomerson
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Default RE: control surface stall?

Elevators do stall with excess control. Say you are doing a loop, and have too much throw available. You try to tighten the loop by giving more elevator. This works fine until the elevator stalls, then the loop opens up as you loose lift on the elevator. I did some experimenting with a control line airplane and this is what I found. This was a case where the wing wasn't stalled.

Jim