As we saw last time, some airplanes exhibit degraded pitch stability and a tendency to pitch up as the angle of attack increases up to and beyond the point where the stall begins. This is never a ...

Last month we started our look at testing the airplane in slow flight and exploring stall characteristics. We discussed lateral/directional behavior last time, so we now turn our attention to the ...

Swapping the angle-of-attack sensor overlay plates on a Gazpromavia Yakovlev Superjet 100 led to last year’s fatal accident as the jet was being ferried from Lukhovitsy to Moscow after a maintenance ...