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What is a "rapid changes in gravitational force"
I've been reading an article on the BBC Website about the 21/May/2024 incident on Singapore Airlines. According to this article:
"The rapid changes in G over the 4.6 seconds duration resulted in ...
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Terminology: is the "normal acceleration" (nz) considered to be 1 G, or 0, when an aircraft is at rest on the ground with fuselage horizontal?
This is meant to be a question about terminology, not a request for an explanation of the underlying physics at play.
When an airplane is in constant-speed straight-and-level upright flight with the ...
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What is the name of the effect that causes a plane in a dive to go up?
What's the name of the effect that causes the aircraft to automatically pull out of a dive and buffet up due to aerodynamic lift produced at high speeds?
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What is the difference between equilibrium and steady flight?
If I'm flying a regular Cessna 172 and its perfectly trimmed and flying in circles holding the same altitude, is the aircraft in equilibrium? Or steady flight?
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What is the difference between a spin and an uncontrolled roll in an high speed dive?
A comment I had on another (now deleted) question states that China Airlines 006 didn't spin. For me it was a spin (unwanted roll due to asymmetrical stall). The comment states it was "it was a ...
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What exactly is a "coordinated" turn?
I am wondering what turn coordination really means and what makes a turn uncoordinated?
I know that when the turn is coordinated, there is no slip and skid, an aircraft is flying a perfect circle ...
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What is a "natural flight loop"?
I'm roughly (edit: very well) familiar with flight simulation, but recently I came across a new term. In this brochure (scroll to the second page) by Airbus about flight simulators, they talk about
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