¯ Luc was discussing "News-846" with Charles. ®
CM> I read, somewhere, that ALL aircraft will pull 2 Gs in a 60
CM> degree bank, regardless of speed, if level flight was
CM> maintained. I found that hard to believe, but confirmed it in
CM> both the jet aircraft and the light aircraft.
LH¯Yes, in horizontal flight G equals 1 divided by the cosine of the
LH¯bank angle, which is 2 for 60 degrees.
Wow! You put all into a nice, fairly easy to understand formula in
one sentence. Thanks!
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