RE: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: What makes an airplane turn?

As I understand it the elevator lift is on the bottom side and used as a down force to hold the nose up, favoring stability.. We have people out there that can tell us about it.

Gary

 

From: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dwayne
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 12:37 PM
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Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: What makes an airplane turn?

 

In reality in my plane (and the few others I've flown) if I bank left and don't apply power or pull the stick back the nose STILL does turn... What happens is that I go into a spiral descending turn. I guess there's still sufficent lift component on the vertical axis of the plane to pull the nose around.   In straight and level flight, you MUST have some kind of lift in the elevator.  You use the trim tab to compensate for this.  Either that, your AOA on your wings have enough lift to override positive force on your elevator.   When you turn, that lift is still there. causing your airplane to turn in the direction you are going.    As you start slide into the fall, the lower wing gets less wind than the upper wing, causing you to turn more and spiral towards the earth.  If you are heading straight down, you will not spiral anymore. _,___

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