Originally Posted by
gums
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I think what 'bird and I and maybe Henra are saying is there is an optimum speed and gee for best turn radius. The AoA is surprisingly lower than stall AoA for many planes.
Your gee toward the center of the circle is what determines the ft/sec from your flight path a millisecond ago. So stall AoA is great for max lift, maybe gliding, but norrmally comes about at a slower CAS than best turn radius. It's not an intuitive relationship, but we have seen it in many of our lites For example, the F-16 gets best turn at about 360 kt CAS and 9 gees - turn radius of about 1400 feet!!!! . You can get up to 25 degrees AoA slower than that but not at 9 gees.
Without a gee limiter, I would pull for all its worth in a big plane and worry abut ripping the wings off later. Most charts I have seen show overspeed and flutter to be a bigger problem than over gee.
GUms opines...