PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Airbus

20th December 2006 | 08:48

#34 (permalink)

Jonty

Joined: Mar 1999

Posts: 991

Likes: 128

From: big green wheely bin

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loose rivets

I'm not an airframes expert, but if the detector logs transitory shockwaves, they could easily pass 12g with no real damage. If the total mass of the aircraft had to be decelerated from some ugly rate of decent, then 12g would be...erm, a tad embarrassing.
It's all about how long the g force is sustained.

It was 3.5g

Reply

0