Originally Posted by
LarryJ
You are confusing pitch attitude with angle of attack (AoA).
Thank you, yes.
As regards the reference to Armstrong, Gemini 7 crew aside, he was the penultimate "right stuff" pilot of the space age. Feel free to substitute the name of ANY test pilot in this case.
With things gone bad-wrong by 1500-1700 feet, what kind of Superman could have escaped disaster at that point?