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Old 09-25-2002 | 01:01 PM
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Trapnell
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Default How many G's can I pull

Ollie - when you talk about g-loading and max coefficient of lift, max g-loading would be the ratio of max Cl / operating Cl (If Clmax were 1.4 and operating Cl is .4, g-loading would be 3.5)When pulling quickly, however, that theoretical max loading can exceed due to the momentum of the air and something called "hysteresis. Are you familiar with that and is that why some aircraft are pulling so many g's?