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  2. Load factor (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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    The load factor, and in particular its sign, depends not only on the forces acting on the aircraft, but also on the orientation of its vertical axis. During straight and level flight, the load factor is +1 if the aircraft is flown "the right way up", [2]: 90 whereas it becomes −1 if the aircraft is flown "upside-down" (inverted). In both ...

  3. Flight control modes - Wikipedia

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    A flight control mode or flight control law is a computer software algorithm that transforms the movement of the yoke or joystick, made by an aircraft pilot, into movements of the aircraft control surfaces. The control surface movements depend on which of several modes the flight computer is in.

  4. Aircraft flight control system - Wikipedia

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    Cockpit controls and instrument panel of a Cessna 182D Skylane. Generally, the primary cockpit flight controls are arranged as follows: [2] A control yoke (also known as a control column), centre stick or side-stick (the latter two also colloquially known as a control or joystick), governs the aircraft's roll and pitch by moving the ailerons (or activating wing warping on some very early ...

  5. Glossary of aerospace engineering - Wikipedia

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    Flight control surfaces – are aerodynamic devices allowing a pilot to adjust and control the aircraft's flight attitude. Flight control system (aircraft) – A conventional fixed-wing aircraft flight control system consists of flight control surfaces , the respective cockpit controls, connecting linkages, and the necessary operating ...

  6. Wing loading - Wikipedia

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    Wing loading is a useful measure of the stalling speed of an aircraft. Wings generate lift owing to the motion of air around the wing. Larger wings move more air, so an aircraft with a large wing area relative to its mass (i.e., low wing loading) will have a lower stalling speed.

  7. Limit load (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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    For aircraft specification calculation in aeronautics, limit load (LL) is the maximum design load expected as the maximum load any aircraft will see during its ...

  8. Flight envelope - Wikipedia

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    Flight envelope diagram. In aerodynamics, the flight envelope, service envelope, or performance envelope of an aircraft or spacecraft refers to the capabilities of a design in terms of airspeed and load factor or atmospheric density, often simplified to altitude.

  9. Load factor - Wikipedia

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    Load factor may refer to: Load factor (aeronautics), the ratio of the lift of an aircraft to its weight; Load factor (computer science), the ratio of the number of records to the number of addresses within a data structure; Load factor (electrical), the average power divided by the peak power over a period of time