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Originally Posted by meritflyer  So by having a heavier aircraft, the wing will have to fly at a higher AoA to produce sufficient lift (increasing CL) and as this is done, the wing flies at a closer to CLmax. Tail down force is nothing more than added weight.
Tail down force doesnt equate to an increased load factor because lift will equal weight during level flight. But the flip side being if the aircraft is heavier (as a result of the tail down force), it must fly at a higher AoA to produce the necessary lift to overcome weight putting the plane closer to the critical AoA. |
Yes. Caution, though. Even though we can think of the tail down force as added weight, it isn't really. We often use the weight as having a correspondence to mass, but the taildown force doesn't add any mass to the airplane.