Tailplane stalls, especially ice-contaminated tailplane stalls (ICTS), occur when the horizontal tail's airfoil exceeds its critical angle of attack; this tail functions "upside down" compared to the ...

The 1963 BAC 1-11 crash was instrumental in understanding the "deep stall" phenomenon, an unrecoverable condition where a stalled wing's turbulent wake blankets the high-mounted T-tail's elevator ...

Accidents resulting from loss of control or spin have been around since the Wright brothers. In the civilian world, stalls have been and, are still, taught as a maneuver. The area is cleared. The ...

Quantitative analysis of airflow turbulence is vitally important for flight safety and control. Direct visualization and measurement of turbulent flow were brought into the scientific community by ...

DESPITE two catastrophic air crashes (the disappearance of MH370 over the Indian ocean, and the shooting down of MH17 over Ukraine), 2014 was the safest year on record for civil aviation—with only one ...