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Re:Boeing 737 Max Crashes: Sensors Vulnerable to Failure by peteradio on Thursday April 11, 2019 @03:52PM (#19638468)
> In flight, the lift is nearly always equal to the weightlab times load factor. (From your link)

This is not true at or near stall conditions.

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Re:Boeing 737 Max Crashes: Sensors Vulnerable to Failure by lutorm on Thursday April 11, 2019 @05:18PM (#19639324)
How so? As far as I understand, it will hold to a very high degree as long as the flight conditions are stable over the time scale needed to establish the airflow pattern over the wing, which is very short.

(If the flight conditions are that unstable, a mechanical AoA vane will struggle too, since it has mechanical inertia.)

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