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You can stall with lots of energy, up in the coffin corner. The U-2 pilots commonly fly there. Going slower or turning too much will produce a stall, but going
by burfog 6y ago
You can stall with lots of energy, up in the coffin corner. The U-2 pilots commonly fly there. Going slower or turning too much will produce a stall, but going faster can hit never-exceed speed limits.
Supermaneuverabillity would make that portion of the flight envelope much less hazardous.
- scarier 6y agoA supermaneuverable U-2 would be... interesting. I wonder if that would reduce pilot workload or increase it? The engineer in me would suggest a robust automatic flight control system system instead, although considering how insane the procurement process can be, I'm admittedly not all that confident it would save money in the long run.
- jasonwatkinspdx 6y agoI'm not a engineer but it seems infeasible to me to create a U2 variant with wings strong enough for such maneuvering. They shaved every ounce they could off those things.