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    B How can a glider or an airplane do a loop without thrust

    Ok guess I am just looking stupid now, thank you everyone for the help.
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    B How can a glider or an airplane do a loop without thrust

    I am just getting confused, let's see what I'm doing wrong, I take this picture: Offcurse my plane is not climbing but just free fall on axis Y (my plane have angle of 0 let's say) so my plane isn't moving backward ?
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    B How can a glider or an airplane do a loop without thrust

    isn't drag at certain point be equal to thrust ? If drag is based on the speed, and because there is no speed increase deriving from thrust (my immaginary airplane has no starting speed) we will get that thrust = 0 so what's left is only the negative force of drag that will increase as my plane...
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    B How can a glider or an airplane do a loop without thrust

    Sorry my drawing skill is very poor, the first plane is the step at time 0, my plane is on starting position with velocity 0 and thrust =0 The second plane is the action after 5 unit of time, my plane went backward and down because of the gravity and the drag as it get velocity but no thrust
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    B How can a glider or an airplane do a loop without thrust

    An ideal airplane or paperplane, set in space and let it fall down freeely as stated before.
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    B How can a glider or an airplane do a loop without thrust

    So basically as my beautiful pic show this is correct immagining the plane with initial v0 let it fall without thrust
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    B How can a glider or an airplane do a loop without thrust

    Ok, my knowledge on physics and vector algebra is quite bad so I am just learning, be patient with me. Based on this image let's say my airplane have a direction of 15° and accelerating, then suddenly stop acceleration and point down nose of the plane, get some velocity and still without...
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    B How can a glider or an airplane do a loop without thrust

    Yes flaps in case of airplane would be involved indeed, the code I put there is just one example it's not the full code but it simulate well a rock ; (dir) is the variable for the direction I could change, isn't enough for pitch angle ?
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    B How can a glider or an airplane do a loop without thrust

    I have to admit I am not good on physics but I am willing to try to understand how is possible for a plane or a glide that's falling without thrust applied downward to make a loop (by changing direction or using the elevators on the tail of plane, like in this picture. I am try to write a...
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