Myth: 1 G barrel rolls are impossible.
Mxsmanic wrote:
Jim Logajan writes:
Myth:
It is impossible to perform a barrel roll such that the pilot feels exactly
1 gee of force perpendicular to the floor of the cockpit.
No maneuver that involves a change in altitude can maintain exactly 1 G along
the net acceleration vector (including perpendicular to the cockpit floor).
This is not a myth, it's a fact.
The only roll you can perform that does not involve more than 1 G of net
acceleration is one that involves no change in altitude, such as a roll
precisely about the longitudinal axis. But no roll that maintains the net
acceleration vector perpendicular to the cockpit floor is in this category.
Maybe it'll fall at 10 Gs and do me a favor.
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