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Sep 16, 2015 at 19:49	comment	added	Peter Cordes		@ToddWilcox: Good catch. Updated my answer (which now probably spends too much time on the math there...). Maximum acceleration is limited to about 9G, and at high speed you don't need as much wing area to produce that much lift. That's what I meant to say before, not actually that you can turn faster if you're going faster.
Sep 16, 2015 at 19:46	history	edited	Peter Cordes	CC BY-SA 3.0	did the math on turn rates
Sep 16, 2015 at 19:00	comment	added	Todd Wilcox		"The faster a plane is moving, the more extra lift for you gain from pitching up. The faster you're going, the more air you can push on with the same size wings." But also the more extra lift you need since you have more momentum for the same mass. Force grants change in momentum, and the other side of that is greater changes in momentum require greater force. This is why there is a corner velocity below the maximum speed of the plane instead of faster always being better.
Sep 16, 2015 at 18:46	history	edited	Peter Cordes	CC BY-SA 3.0	wing loading.
Sep 16, 2015 at 18:32	history	edited	Peter Cordes	CC BY-SA 3.0	aspect ratio and lifting-body fuselages
Sep 16, 2015 at 18:26	history	edited	Peter Cordes	CC BY-SA 3.0	aspect ratio
Sep 16, 2015 at 17:50	history	edited	Peter Cordes	CC BY-SA 3.0	vectored thrust.
Sep 16, 2015 at 17:42	review	First posts
Sep 16, 2015 at 17:45
Sep 16, 2015 at 17:42	history	answered	Peter Cordes	CC BY-SA 3.0