Andy Ross wrote:
> Jim Wilson wrote:

>>It appears that the thrust/altitude curve is a bit too steep. [...]
>>Also there seems to be a greatly exagerated "ram effect" (not sure of
>>correct term).  It seems that airspeed changes might be affecting the
>>thrust value too greatly, but I don't have a feel for this at all.
> 
> 
> OK, this doesn't surprise me too much.  I haven't examined the Jet
> stuff very closely.  The way the code works is that it matches some
> performance curves I got out of McFarland for a 707 engine.  The
> turbofans on the 747 actually won't be too terribly far off in their
> thrust performance, I'd think. (With a little scaling of the minor
> output numbers like N1 and TIT to ones appropriate for the engine.)
> Most likely, I've got an interpolation bug in there somewhere.  I'll
> take a look.
> 

According to this site you're pretty close:
http://www.bh.com/companions/aerodata/appendices/data-b/default.htm

Erik


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