Let me throw a dog in this fight )

For example in the P-51. You are trimmed up for cruise and decide to
do a loop. You drop the nose and pick up air speed. If you were
trimmed for straight an level flight then as you pick up A/S you need
to put in left rudder to keep the ball centered.

As you pull up and airspeed bleeds off, you then relax the left rudder
and put in right rudder to counteract the engine torque at the lower
A/S keeping the ball centered.

This normally is an automatic use of rudders and you don't have to
think right or left rudder, just use the rudders to keep the ball
centered.

The amount of rudder used in a P-51 with the long nose and high power,
is more than you would use in a Cessna or Piper of course but same use
of controls is required.

In the "Spam Can", always flew the bird in a coordinated manner where
I wanted it to go and never thought about the control position needed
to make it do what I wanted.

If you let the ball get out of center and pulled high "G's", then the
bird would snap pretty easy (and quick).

And a nice day to all

Big John


On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 20:02:17 +0100, "ShawnD2112"
wrote:

Wouldn't he kinda know what the inputs for a loop were if he were flying a
Mustang? Or at least have a more qualified contact to ask than a random
shot in a newsgroup?

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:kzumb.24688$Tr4.49151@attbi_s03...
220 and 270?!?! Criminy, what are you flying?

Not sure what he's flying now, but the last time I saw Mr. Lenoch fly, he
was in a P-51D Mustang.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"