Yarn tufts talking amongst themselves on stalling wing

So, one wonders what yarn tufts would say if they could say it, during their rides on an aerofoil---but wonder no more! Because someone finally mounted hundreds of little throat microphones on a study wing and we finally get to hear them!

Of more interest---it's cool how they lay flat in cruise, then, as the wing angles up (angle of attack increases), the ones at the trailing edge and at the wing tips encounter turbulent (versus smooth laminar) flow first and start to protest in alarm---creating an advance warning of the stall with turbulent buffeting, and of course, the raised voices of the yarn tufts in complaint---then the whole wing drops into a stall---and once the nose of the plane has dipped and the speed has picked up again---everything is copacetic once more.

Comedy because GEEK comedy.

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