Timeline for By aircraft design, excluding engine power, how do you make planes that have a tight turn radius while maintaining speed?
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| Sep 9, 2023 at 22:42 | history | edited | Peter Kämpf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 28, 2022 at 7:27 | comment | added | Peter Kämpf | @nick012000 As you can see from the graphs, higher gs quickly give you diminishing returns. It is more clever to make the structure less beefy, resulting in lower structural mass and lower wing loading, allowing the plane to fly more slowly. That is the best strategy for tighter turns. | |
| Jan 24, 2022 at 19:50 | comment | added | nick012000 | @PeterKampf The reason they're designed that way is because there's no point overengineering a fighter aircraft to be capable of performing manoeuvres that will kill its pilot, so the fighters are designed to fail at the same time as their pilots do. | |
| Jan 24, 2022 at 18:38 | comment | added | Peter Kämpf | @nick012000 At that g load, your engine will probably quit before the pilot does, if it is a jet. G loads for jet engines are quite strict - small deformations will already cause catastrophic failure. | |
| Jan 24, 2022 at 16:35 | comment | added | Aleks G | @nick012000 Unless the OP is designing a UAV. | |
| Jan 24, 2022 at 11:41 | comment | added | nick012000 | "Maximum sustainable load factor, which is limited by the structure and engine thrust" And also by human biology. Pull more than about 10Gs, and the pilot isn't going to be feeling too good. This is important with high-performance fighter aircraft. | |
| Jan 23, 2022 at 20:22 | history | answered | Peter Kämpf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |