Re: Re; Accelerated Stalls

[Brian Whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 05:24 PM 11/1/01 -0500, Hugh Haskell quoted an accident report thus:
> ... The airplane was taxied
> in rain to takeoff on runway 30....Witnesses described the
> airplane's climb rate and speed as slow, and they observed the
> airplane enter a roll and descent that was consistent with a stall.
> Density altitude at the airport was 6,670 feet. The airplane's gross
> weight was calculated to be 84 pounds over the maximum limit at the
> time of the impact."
> ...
> Hugh


It may be that some people are not engrossed by flying. They can still
take a Physics conversation piece from this report: that air density
drops with increase in elevation, with temperature, but also with moisture
content
 - water vapor being less dense than air.

Brian W