PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Why do aircrafts support less G´s in the negative side?
Old 16th December 2016 | 11:25
  #13 (permalink)  
cyclic35
 
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 102
Likes: 0
From: Lincolnshire
When Negative G can be useful

Originally Posted by smthngdffrnt
Ok, I got it, however, I don´t see any difference in terms of design, in other words, can anyone give one example of structure able to support +5 G´s and not -3 G´s? If I´m not wrong I guess it is just the same force with different sign so I don´t see why a stabilator -example- can just tolerates high forces in the "possitive side".

Cheers.
Somewhere from the distant past, my memory recalled a specific 1970 event.
This link might be of interest and is reported by the late pilot concerned.


https://historic.aerobatics.org.uk/r...ng_failure.htm
cyclic35 is offline