"John R Weiss" wrote in message
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote in message
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If your F-105 is capable of doing something inside its flight
envelope, it
is normal operation.

An example of an abnormal operation is the cobra manouver, as the
flight
controls are altered from normal operation.

How are the flight controls "altered from normal operation"?

The operator must disable the control system augmentation in order to do
a
cobra manouver.

What part of the cobra maneuver is outside the airplane's flight
envelope?

The airplane will not do a cobra manouver with the control's
augmentation
on.

How do you define "flight envelope" in context?

I define it the same way as you would an F-18 in "cable actuated system"
mode.

I don't define "flight envelope" in any context with reference to any F-18
system mode...

You should, the F-18 unaugmented is a real tail dragger and I don't mean a
wheel.

So, what was the "normal operation" mode of the F-106 flight controls?

I never worked on the F-106's flight controls.

By your definition/description of "flight envelope," any maneuver or
regime an
airplane can enter with any control input, using "normal" control
authority is a
"normal operation."

Using that definition, any maneuvers prohibited by the Operator's Handbook
or
other limitations would be considered "normal"

Nope, the operator's handbook describes the flight envelope.

Consider for a moment that you are a French pilot making a low slow pass
over a runway in an early A-320. The airplane has no such normal operation
for a low slow pass over a runway, but only to land, or go around.