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Old 4th March 2020 | 00:29
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Gaston,this may help with general `turning performance` but primarily for level flight turning. A significant difference between piston prop/and turboprop aircraft and jets is that the propwash can give you better yaw and pitch control at lower speeds than a jet aircraft,as a generalisation,and usually have lower stalling speeds..
If you have as an example two aircraft,same,weight piston aircraft stallspeed 80 kts,jet stall speed 100kts,both limited to 4G,,both start turning at their limiting G,the piston will be at 160 kts at 75* bank,with a turn radius of 611ft and turn rate of 24*/sec; the jet will be at 200kts at 75*bank,turn radius of 955ft,and turnrate 20*/sec.But real combat is not like that,so one has to employ other tactics...
Try-csgnetwork/aircraftturning performance.com
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