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angle of attack: a standalone construct

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angle ofattack1 CONSTRUCTAngle of attackANDERSON · ALPHA

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Aeronautics

The tilt of a wing to the oncoming air

In aerodynamics the angle of attack is the angle between a wing's (or airfoil's) chord line and the direction of the oncoming relative wind, the single geometric quantity that most directly sets how much lift the surface produces. Anderson's Fundamentals of aerodynamics describes how lift grows almost linearly with angle of attack until, past a critical value, the flow separates and the wing stalls and loses lift. It is distinct from the fixed angle of incidence at which a wing is rigged to the fuselage: angle of attack is measured against the airflow in flight, not against the structure, and it is the primary control variable behind lift, stall, and trim.[1]

Unit
The angle, in degrees, between the chord line and the relative wind
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Read from angle-of-attack vanes or pressure probes and related to the lift coefficient up to the stall angle

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References

  1. Anderson, J. D. (2017). Fundamentals of aerodynamics (6th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN 9781259129919

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