> Several of the Citabrias I fly don't have stall horns, all I have is the buffet.
That's fine, as long as the airfoil and wing planform you chose have a forgiving-enough lift vs angle-of-attack curve that you get plenty of buffeting before you start loosing significant lift and fall out of the sky.
> Airplanes which are designed to do this (most airplanes) do it very reliably
Yes, this is by design. Enough pilots were killed because their planes were not doing this reliably, and they literally fell out of the sky.
That's fine, as long as the airfoil and wing planform you chose have a forgiving-enough lift vs angle-of-attack curve that you get plenty of buffeting before you start loosing significant lift and fall out of the sky.
> Airplanes which are designed to do this (most airplanes) do it very reliably
Yes, this is by design. Enough pilots were killed because their planes were not doing this reliably, and they literally fell out of the sky.