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as you go higher the stall speed and the overspeed speed become closer and closer together

fascinating!

it's been a long time since I exercised my pilot cert so I'm very rusty with my aviation science, but I'd've guessed that lower air density meant less drag and less stress on the airframe, and I'd've assumed that the wings losing lift from too little air flow would correlate pretty closely with the forces that cause overspeed

how does it work that an airframe's max rated airspeed doesn't change at the same rate as a level flight stall speed?

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