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Old 21st Nov 2007, 01:59
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Wino
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Many Jet fighter planes having Rolling G limits and it is because of this effect.

The F100 had a MASSIVE rotating mass in the engine and many aircraft were lost early in its service life from Gyroscopic forces. Later models received a much larger Rudder and vertical stab to counter this. But early models had a lot of unexplained departures from controlled flight that werer later chalked up to gyropscopic forces.

F-4 phantom as I recall had a rather low rolling G limitation to keep from breaking the motor mounts from gyroscopic forces.

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