{"id":1659,"date":"2025-02-09T21:14:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T03:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2025-02-09T21:15:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T03:15:48","slug":"maneuvering-speed-corner-velocity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/maneuvering-speed-corner-velocity\/","title":{"rendered":"Maneuvering Speed. Corner Velocity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this engineering talk to the Texas Flying Club, I discussed maneuvering speed (aka corner velocity). This talk includes a discussion of the physics, applied calculations for the club&#8217;s Cessna 172 with a 2400 pound STC, references and discussions of the CAR 3 regulations governing most older aircraft, and a discussion of limitations of the regulations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ManeuveringSpeed.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/manu-1024x580.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/manu-1024x580.png 1024w, https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/manu-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/manu-768x435.png 768w, https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/manu-624x354.png 624w, https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/manu.png 1405w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The important points to remember are: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Maneuvering Speed only effectively protects against a SINGLE control input.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reduce Va at lower weights. A good rule of thumb is a reduction by half the weight ratio.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Negative load limits and maneuvering speed are less than the positive load limits and Va.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!selectors.core.file.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ManeuveringSpeed.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of ManeuveringSpeed.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-190590aa-e8b0-4cdd-84d9-e70217a148b8\" href=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ManeuveringSpeed.pdf\">ManeuveringSpeed<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ManeuveringSpeed.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-190590aa-e8b0-4cdd-84d9-e70217a148b8\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this engineering talk to the Texas Flying Club, I discussed maneuvering speed (aka corner velocity). This talk includes a discussion of the physics, applied calculations for the club&#8217;s Cessna 172 with a 2400 pound STC, references and discussions of the CAR 3 regulations governing most older aircraft, and a discussion of limitations of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charles-oneill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}