GATE AE · 2020 · AE
Question 25: Airplane Performance
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Question 25
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An airplane of mass 5000 kg is flying at a constant speed of 360 km/h at the bottom of a vertical circle with a radius of 400 m, as shown in the figure. Assuming that the acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 m/s
, the load factor experienced at the center of gravity of the airplane is ______ (round off to two decimal places).

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GATE AE 2020 · Paper 1
Aerospace Engineering · Original paper archive
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- Aerospace Engineering
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- Numerical answer (NAT)
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- 1 mark
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