[QUOTE=Viper2000;261610]If you look at the g history for a later transonic dive (where there was a greater need to expedite entry due to the need to get high TAS at high altitude) you'll see that it was quite possible to dive very steeply without ever seeing negative g:
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Thanks for that Viper.
I'm really just a layman but looking at the dive figures it seems that quite a high rate of descent can be achieved in quite a short time without even hitting 0.5G.
The average rates of descent over the 2.7 sec periods are in the order of (without splitting hairs) and against g values
1........0.82.....0.65....0.7.......0.42.....0.28. .....0.29.......0.54
0........-2667...-2000..-2000...-5333...-12000...-15778...-14444
The g values seem quite benign and I did wonder if the g figures were
variations in g value (although I would have expected them to be -ve values) which would have made the actual g values
1...0.18...0.35...0.3...0.58...0.72...0.71...0.46. ..0.56
That would take us into the questionable g territory for engine cutout at the beginning of the dive, perhaps less than 0.5 as is being speculated.
Anyway, thats even more speculation
