AE421-load factors

What is a load factor?

• The largest prime factor of the weight of the aircraft.

• Non-dimensional number to indicate how much inertia load acts on the airplane.

• A notorious number that keeps bothering the designers.

• Nothing related to an airplanes... it is just a bogus concept.

A high positive load factor means the pilot may experience a g-lock.

• True
• False

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A fighter aircraft can sustain higher load factors than commercial aircraft because...?

• The regulations say so!

• It is designed to withstand higher loads.

• No this is not true.

• Fighter aircraft fight, others don't.

During landing, an aircraft experiences which of the following things?

• Friction.

• High load factors.

• High thrust.

• High lift.

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How are landing loads used?

• To design wings.

• To design the fuselage.

• To design the landing gear.

• To design the vertical tail.

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