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Angle of attack.
The difference between pitch and the air-referenced flight path angle; the angle between the aircraft center line and the airspeed vector in the vertical plane, positive when the nose is up; Symbols: alpha; Typical Units: rad, deg;
The angle between the chord line of the wing of an aircraft and the relative wind.
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