Thread: poor lateral control on a slow tow?
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Old January 6th 11, 01:45 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Andreas Maurer
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Default poor lateral control on a slow tow?
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:51:05 -0800 (PST), ProfChrisReed
wrote:

L=W only in level flight.

Wrong.

The correct term is

L=W in STRAIGHT flight.

If both forces are not equal, the resulting flightpath is going to be
a circular arc.

It's simple vector addition.


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Andreas