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Old 07-10-2007 | 06:25 PM
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Default RE: What is Crow?

It's used a lot on sailplanes. A good state of the art sailplane is so aerodynamically clean that without either spoilers or crow, they are almost impossible to land. Put the nose down a few degrees to steepen the glide slope and the plane just speeds up like a car coasting down a hill and trying to flare just causes the plane to balloon back up in the air.