Angle of attack, not airspeed or nose attitude, decides when a wing stalls.LeRoy Cook connects the textbook stall to what ...

Current pilot training for stalls and spins is often inadequate, focusing on contrived maneuvers rather than instilling the judgment and comprehensive awareness needed for real-world accident ...

Perhaps no other certificated, spins-approved trainer has generated as much controversy in recent years as the Piper Tomahawk. With fewer than 2500 copies produced from 1978 through 1982, the airplane ...

A new study by the AOPA Air Safety Foundation dispels some commonly-held beliefs many general aviation pilots have about stalls and spins. The results of the study, developed using data from the ASF ...

A little anxiety is perfectly normal when an airplane begins rotating toward the ground in a 60-degree nose-down attitude. But the thought of spin training need not cause you to break out in a cold ...

Every pilot learns about stalls and spins, but experiencing the edge of an aircraft's performance is an entirely different lesson. During this training flight, Ed works hard to keep the aircraft under ...

A student pilot's first solo flight at Quebec City's Jean Lesage International Airport resulted in a serious crash after a bounced landing led to an attempted go-around and a subsequent stall/spin at ...