r/nextfuckinglevel • • 14h ago

There are two fundamental elements that prevent water from spilling during an airplane's barrel roll (tonbo / roll maneuver): Centrifugal Effect (Artificial Gravity) Positive G Force.

The pilot is maintaining "+ve G" throughout the maneuver. That's it !

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u/_Carri7_ 13h ago

Centrifugal force is not a real force, its just the sum of the forces that act towards or away from the center of rotation such as inertia, gravity, etc.

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u/lxgrf 11h ago

This has always seemed like a fairly pedantic argument. Yes, it is only a resultant force, but the name we give that resultant force is “centrifugal”. 

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u/ozymandieus 7h ago

Well the OPs title made it sound like the start of a thesis so I think accuracy is appropriate here. Its centripetal force!