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Old February 5th 13, 04:00 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Dave Nadler
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Default Formula for diameter of a circle

On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 10:07:43 AM UTC-5, Ralph Jones wrote:
Can someone post the formula for determining the diameter of a circle
flown at a specific speed and bank angle?


v=airspeed in feet per second
b=bank angle
r=radius of turn
r=(v^2)/32.2tan b


I'll help with the hard part:
diameter = 2 x radius ;-)

See ya, Dave