What is the Load Factor

if you place a scale inside a stationary aeroplane and put a one kilogram lump of metal on it, the scale shows one kilogram.

Flying straight and level high up in the sky the scale also shows one kilogram of weight, but when the aeroplane executes a balanced turn of sixty degrees angle of bank the scale shows two kilograms of weight, this aeroplane is experiencing a load factor of positive two G.