In actual manuver of an aeroplane, turning flight is accompanied more or less with climbing, as the velocity for most favorable horizontal turn is too small to be actually flown with. For the most simple case of a climbing turn in an inclined plane the author introduced a method of calculation. The climbing turn of an aeroplane was then calculated as an example, taking the angle of inclination of the plane of turning manuver as 15°, 30°, 40°and 45°.
The conclusions are:-
(1) The 180°-turn in an inclined plane in general, needs much shorter time and more narrow space than a horizontal turn, provided the same entering speed and the same maximum load factor.
(2) To obtain the good performance in horizontal turn, the pilot must throtlle the engile and begin the turn with a very low speed. The inclined turn can be entered with much higher speed, and the performance is better than the same as or, at least, the horizontal turn.
(3) In the inclined turn, the aeroplane climbs at first with the excess of power, and when the speed drops, it begins to descend with the result that the speed loss at the end of the 180° turn is much smaller than in the horizontal turn.
(4) For the same load factor, the best performance of the inclined turn is about the same as that of the horizontal one, but the entering speed for the best turn is higher for the former.
(5) The vertical turn cannot be explained as the extreme case of the horizontal turn, since the normal acceleration, i.e. the load factor tends to be infinitely large. Introducing the conception of the turn in an inclined plane, the angle of bank (to the ground) of 90° or more than 90° can be understood as the attitude of the aeroplane at the highest Point in the inclined plane. And, the inclined turn for which the maximum angle of bank reaches about 90° was shown to be the most favorable one for the aeroplane taken as example.
(6) In the inclined turn, as in the horizontal turn, the turning performance becomes better by the use of the wing flap.
(7) The inclined turn is not good for the performance of a continuous turn.
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