Snaps

[JOddino]

How do you stall a wing that is not producing any lift, as in the case when the plane is on a vertical up or down line?
My definnition of stall is when an increase in angle of attack does not produce an increase in lift.  Another might be when the lift does not exceed the weight.  I've got to believe we know a snap when we see it and we ought to quit trying to describe it in words.
Jim
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Patternrules at aol.com 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 6:13 PM
  Subject: Re: Snaps


  In a message dated 4/13/2004 8:06:56 PM US Eastern Standard Time, rcsteve at tcrcm.org writes:
     Don't stop reading as so many do, this is the next sentence.
    
   1. Since the maneuver is defined as a stall maneuver
  (initiated by a rapid stall of the wing induced
  by a change in pitch attitude), the nose of the
  fuselage should show a definite break from the
  flight path in the direction of the snap (positive
  or negative) while the track closely maintains
  the flight path.
   


  Steve Maxwell
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