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Old September 18th 03, 03:58 PM
Ron Natalie
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"Marco Leon" mleon(at)optonline.net wrote in message ...

The manuevering speed on my Warrior is 111 kts which translates to about 128
mph.


Manouvering speed isn't a reasonable number to use here. What manouvering
speed does is say that you a full control input will stall you before you exceed
the loading limits (also note that the stall comes at higher speeds when you are
not at the gross weight so the manouvering speed is lower than the 111 knots
indicated above). This is not an issue of control deflection. Your plane is
not stalled, and not going to stall as it's attitude is artificially constrained.

The question is whether the tiedowns and what they are connected to on your
plane can take the aerodynamic forces. Also note that you're not necessarily
going to have the wind coming head on to the nose.