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The Angle of Attack is defined as the angle between relative wind and chord of an airfoil. So if your engine has enough juice to climb at 45° (and many aerobatic aircrafts do), your relative wind is coming at 45° from ground, but almost at 0° with respect to the chord. So your wing is still flying.

Let me know if that makes sense.

Oh well, I did not know that. Do you have any citation that explains this further?

Probably not completely true. An airfoil stalls when the critical angle of attack is exceeded. For most airfoils, this sits at around 17°. For all commercial aircrafts (I think 727 onwards) there is a mechanism called stick pusher that will not allow an airfoil to go over critical AoA. I am not sure if this has been overridden somwhere in the 737 Max 8 though.

You are right. Airframes are designed to be nose heavy. The wings tends to fly up, whereas the elevators tend to fly down. In a dead stick condition, the airplane is designed to fly with a pitch down attitude so you don't lose airspeed and have enough airflow over the wings to continue generate enough lift to glide. If the CG shifts forwards, it is actually a good thing.

Source: I am a pilot.

Still does not explain the relationship between forward shifting CG and abrupt thrust.

>The Max 8 is outfitted with bigger, more fuel-efficient engines than earlier 737s, and the weight and positioning of those engines shifted the plane's center of gravity forward, increased the potential for the nose to pitch up after take-off.

Umm, a little confused here, if the center of gravity shifted forward, why will the pitch up tendency increase?

No it's not. The airplane just has to do wind correction by either crabbing into or away from the wind depending on the wind direction.

Yes, most of the time. There is actually Winds aloft data that is made available to pilots to select routes. And in lots of cases IFR routes are designed keeping these speeds in mind.

No you are right. In case of tailwind, it is KIAS + WS whereas headwind is KIAS - WS

KIAS: Knots Indicated Airspeed (i.e. the speed at which air is hitting the pitot tube) WS: Wind speed

Airplane pilot checking in. There are multiple. :)

Also, if you use something like plastiq.com, you can use them to pay your rent and other places that typically do not accept credit cards. They do have a charge for their services, but frequently runs 0% charge sales.

Disclaimer: I have been a satisfied customer for them. I do not work for them or get any kickbacks.

Mind sharing the name of your CU?

Which credit union offers 4% on all money with them? I know of a few CUs that will offer much higher interest on the first X dollars. Ex: inspiruscu.org

Ask your phone: Hey Siri, whose phone is this?

That disables biometrics at least on iPhone 7

Doesn't some of the states have a "right to repair" law? If memory serves correctly, Tesla had a trouble with that. Will Apple not be affected?

I am invariably going to see in the world of Slack, "IRC, why don't you die already".

No, IRC is not going to die. FreeNode is alive and well. And while you busy slamming and wishing death of IRC, just check the memory usage of your Slack client.

:) Why does this comment remind me of the abbreviation (I heard) of LISP, Lots of Irritating and Superfluous Parenthesis. :)

Also, I am wondering is this different from say, Apple iPhone Locator (apart from the fact that this is relevant to Android)? I think with the latest OS, unless you choose a weak password, your device pretty much could be made a brick if stolen?

Or, I can just use Adblock and get the ads blocked.

Yeah, it does look strange, I was getting a 200 but no data.

I wish this happened in US. The fee part, not the paid to read part :)

Very well said!

I believe there is a version of IDA which runs on Linux as well as MacOS

While, I completely agree with the fact that the Government is trying to deal with financing terrorists and anti social elements, I think what will now happen is services like xoom.com is going to bloom. It would just shift the transactions from one place to the other. Also, someone can always use a US debit card to withdraw money in local currency from Mexico, no?

I have come across this kind of support numerous times from various companies like Apple, NEC and Wacom. The result is, I firmly recommend them everytime I have a chance and will continue to do them as long as they provide transparency.

Oh I surely have missed it. Thanks so much for telling me that!!

Here is another set of lectures from IIT Madras India which helped me understand what Automata is all about.

http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses/106106049/

Well said. Well said!!

And with Gentoo. Not trying to start a Distro flamewar, but if someone wants to learn distro independent Linux, then he or she should try his or her hands on LFS. The next best thing after LFS would be Gentoo.

>It would be like a weather app with ads in the middle of the sun icon.

The analogy is just awesome!! Thanks a ton for bringing a smile on a gloomy day :)