Did We Do It?
Boudreaux, that wasn't the only thing the UTTAS program had us doing that was perhaps a bit " outre ".
Charlie Crawford, who ran the Army Avn Sys Cmd Flight Standards Division, and hence was the person running the tech side of the fly-off, came in to visit and left us with instructions to get standard flight loads data at 120 degrees bank angle, which we dutifully did. Steady state data at 120 degrees takes some doing. Having done that, the US Army flight manual* for the fly-off aircraft had a published bank angle chart vs speed. From 34 to 136 Kias, the limit was 90 degrees so there was some margin. I never did learn why Charlie, who never did anything like that without some issue, somewhere, needed that data and the somewhat high limit, for a flyoff done in the main ( two of the three machines were flown by this group ) by a picked-for-diversity group of Army pilots from Ft Campbell units.
* I did retain a copy of this manual.