flight envelope


flight envelope

[′flīt ‚en·və‚lōp] (aerospace engineering) The boundary depicting, for a specific aircraft, the limits of speed, altitude, and acceleration which that aircraft cannot safely exceed.

flight envelope

flight envelopeThe defined conditions of air speed, altitude, g loading, sideslip, etc. the aircraft is permitted to operate within. It is a graph in which curves of the speed are plotted against altitude or other variables. It indicates the limits within which the aircraft can be operated safely.