To wheelie up in the air you need to push a bit the airplane’s limits 📈🚀🤓
(for some explanation wait till the 🔚 or read below)
Airplanes have an aerodynamic limit called “critical angle of attack”. The angle of attack (AoA or Alpha) is the angle between flight direction (velocity direction/relative wind) and the wing (wing chord line). Doesn’t matter the speed, doesn’t matter the attitude, beyond the critical AoA the airflow becomes separated over large regions of the lifting surfaces (airfoils) resulting in insufficient lift to maintain altitude or control of the aircraft and a corresponding increase in drag, a condition known as “stall”…but there are ways to bypass and push this limit for a bit from its average value of about 15-20 degrees to much higher alpha values, even without thrust-vectoring or super powerful jet engines.
If wanna know more, nasa had a very interesting High-Alpha flight research program few years ago, check it out online.
P.S. as usual, 💨 is non-toxic ...
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