On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 2:21:45 PM UTC+3, Surge wrote:
On Tuesday, 15 December 2015 10:30:11 UTC+2, Bengt Aronsson wrote:
Well, according to the tcds linked from german CAA website (
https://www2.lba.de/data/bb/Segelflug/sp_0286_01.pdf ) its certified to
german LFS requirements without deviations. The min required load factors
then is +5.3 / -2.65g at max maneuvering speed, lineary decreasing to +4.0
/ -1.5g at Vne.
Airbrakes out requirements are +3.5 / -0g.


Thank you very much.
That railway line, main spar looks like it could take a lot more abuse than the certified limits.

I'm sure Ray Lynskey's N2 got an awful lot of high speed (and often high altitude) abuse on mountain ridges and in rotor. It survived it.