Title: What's the minimum speed for an airplane to stay airborne? I have seen some planes almost hovering/going extremely slow. - Quora
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John Smith
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Content: You will have to dance on the rudders to keep it straight. If it gets too much for you, just relax back-pressure and recover. In the old days, this method was taught so that pilots could descend through a glory hole in the clouds to get to VFR below. This was before Instruments were refined. Also, it was standard practice to spin down through an overcast, so as not to lose orientation, in order to get below the overcast. One of my first instructors was a WWII bomber pilot. Sponsored by ShipEngine
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William Sayers
, Retired from a career of watching foreign military forces wail on each other. Answered 4 years ago · Author has 393 answers and 4.7M answer views
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