We don't usually take requests, but a reader wrote recently to ask us about tailplane stalls, those involving the horizontal portion of an airplane's tail. It's been a while since we covered them in-depth, so now's a good time to revisit that topic. Our reader wrote: "The middle of summer when it is 90 degrees outside is not when most pilots think about tailplane icing but I would like to see an article about the aerodynamics of recovery from a tailplane stall and I know you need lead time to do that.
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