At 01:53 PM 3/3/98 -0500, you wrote: >Tom writes > >Maybe you can...but you shouldn't! The design maximum cruising speed of a >coupe is 114mph. At gross weight, an 0-200 can exceed that...why would you >want to put more engine on a coupe? > >My source of that information is one of the "Fly About" books...I'll look >it up when I get home! > >Pete, N3552H
Pete, I have argued this point with Paul Prentess more times than I care to count but just for the hell of it I'll put it out for this group. The 114mph is the designed max cruise speed (HP VS drag) not the max structural speed which is 144 MPH, which according to Fred Weick in a conversation I had with him several years ago at the Chicken Ranch was an arbitrary number. He wouldn't tell me what the actual number really is but just smiled and said it was quite conservative. BTW the maneuvering speed is 108 MPH (max speed in rough air speed). Dave 41 Charlie http://www.flash.net/~dmprosvc/dave
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