Loss of control in flight is the primary category of fatal accidents within all sectors of aviation and failure to maintain adequate airspeed - leading to a stall - is often cited as a causal factor. Stalls occur when the critical angle of the aircraft is exceeded for a given airspeed. Using airspeed as an indicator of the potential to stall is an unreliable proxy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFphage Tokki is a siphovirus isolated from soil in River Falls, Wisconsin. The genome contains 57,652-bp encoding 98 proteins, of which 23 were assigned a function. Tokki's genome structure and content is typical of other AU2 subcluster phages, except for the lack of an identifiable acetyltransferase.
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