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Old 01-11-2017 | 07:44 PM
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HighPlains
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To give an accurate visual flight appearance, you need to scale time as well. In other words, you can only observe it from film. Mathematically, models do not turn like full scale. For instance a standard rate turn takes two minutes. The bank angle depends on speed of the airplane. So if your model is banked at the same angle as a full size to give a prototypical appearance in the turn, it will happen in a much different length of time.