Aerodynamic Turning Model
Cajun- I do understand all of the comments - thanks - I am puzzled tho that you you refer to drag created by higher AOA as profile drag - I always refer to that as Induced drag -
Flaps/variable incidence, etc., do keep the deck(fuselage) flying at a lesser AOA- but what I was suggesting is part of an old NASA project which had a free wing - the prop and fuselage moved relative to the wing.
I looked at it - -and tried to think of a practical application - couldn't - and I wondered about using the concept to use vectored thrust -sorta like a Harrier does - as a aid to overcome the slipping losses in a high G turn.
I really do think our models are too small for much fiddling with shifting airfoils - VI etc., but fun to conjecture -- armchair flying is fun--