Why the US Navy flew F/A-18s at extreme angles of attack during carrier qualification

The Hornet needed a high angle of attack as this comes with the territory of carrier operations and it lacks the F-14's ...
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Crashed Superjet’s erroneous angle-of-attack readings traced to swapped overlay plates

Swapping the angle-of-attack sensor overlay plates on a Gazpromavia Yakovlev Superjet 100 led to last year’s fatal accident as the jet was being ferried from Lukhovitsy to Moscow after a maintenance ...
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FAA Advocates Angle Of Attack Sensors, Training

Exceeding a wing's critical angle of attack (AOA) causes stalls, a known factor in fatal aviation accidents, yet real-time AOA instrumentation is not widely required on most airplanes. The FAA ...
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Flying AOA

Traditional airspeed indicators and stall warning systems are often insufficient for pilots to accurately gauge proximity to a critical angle of attack (AoA), as they don't account for variables like ...