Title: How Slow Can a Fighter Jet Fly? – What’s the Stall Speed of Jet Fighters? – HighSkyFlying
Headings: How Slow Can a Fighter Jet Fly? – What’s the Stall Speed of Jet Fighters?
How Slow Can a Fighter Jet Fly? – What’s the Stall Speed of Jet Fighters?
Table of Contents
What is the stall speed of a fighter jet?
What happens when a fighter jet stalls?
How does a fighter jet go into an uncontrolled freefall?
What is a controlled aircraft stall and what are the risks?
What are the typical stall speeds of modern fighter jets?
Why cannot military airplanes fly as slow as general aviation aircraft?
How do military planes land on carriers despite being unable to fly slow?
Summary and Conclusion
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Content: Of course, this has to do with the small size of the wing relative to the airplane’s weight. In other words, a fighter jet has a high wing loading. For a general aviation plane, the wings are larger relative to the weight of the airplane, and designed to operate within subsonic ranges. Therefore, planes such as Cessna 152 can fly as slow as 48 knots. As a fighter jet cannot slow down considerably during flight, one may think how can it land on relatively shorter runways such as those on an aircraft carrier? How do military planes land on carriers despite being unable to fly slow? Runways on an aircraft carrier are short, narrow, and mobile, making the approach for landing a tough enough job for a navy pilot. The approach for carrier landings must be near perfect and according to the textbook. Although the speed of the aircraft cannot be reduced drastically in the air, it happens once the tail-hook installed on these aircraft catches on to the arrestor cables installed on the runway of aircraft carriers. These arrestor cables provide the braking necessary to stop the fighter jet without overrunning the carrier runway and falling into the ocean.