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leaning a new trick
Posted by:
kurt
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Date: January 11, 2005 07:47PM
Micheal:
I'll let the bubbleheads answer your direct question. They've been on a nuke-boat while it is turning hard while going fast (otherwise you'd never notice the effect).
Your conception on banking and aircraft, however, is not correct.
When an airplane banks into a turn, the banking balances any centrifugal forces on the crew and passengers. In a properly flown aircraft (what a pilot calls a coordinated turn) the forces in any turn will ALWAYS appear to be vertical relative to the aircraft interior. In other words, even when the aircraft is banked in a turn the crew will be appeat to a passenger on the aircraft to be standing up 'vertically' and not need to lean one way or the other.
This is similar to how you get 'pushed' to the outside of a car during a turn if the road is flat, but don't feel any sideforces if the road is banked. And that is why race car tracks have banked turns. But enough freshman physics.....
This coordination in an aircraft turn is accomplished by the rudder. The rudder does not turn the aircraft - the banking with the ailerons does.
Ships and subs do not turn with banking - they turn by the action of their rudder - an uncoordinated turn.
Hope this helps.
Kurt
PS What movie? What's it about?
I'll let the bubbleheads answer your direct question. They've been on a nuke-boat while it is turning hard while going fast (otherwise you'd never notice the effect).
Your conception on banking and aircraft, however, is not correct.
When an airplane banks into a turn, the banking balances any centrifugal forces on the crew and passengers. In a properly flown aircraft (what a pilot calls a coordinated turn) the forces in any turn will ALWAYS appear to be vertical relative to the aircraft interior. In other words, even when the aircraft is banked in a turn the crew will be appeat to a passenger on the aircraft to be standing up 'vertically' and not need to lean one way or the other.
This is similar to how you get 'pushed' to the outside of a car during a turn if the road is flat, but don't feel any sideforces if the road is banked. And that is why race car tracks have banked turns. But enough freshman physics.....
This coordination in an aircraft turn is accomplished by the rudder. The rudder does not turn the aircraft - the banking with the ailerons does.
Ships and subs do not turn with banking - they turn by the action of their rudder - an uncoordinated turn.
Hope this helps.
Kurt
PS What movie? What's it about?
