Lee Elliott wrote: > Production Typhoons could exceed 530 mph in dives, with bombs/RPs, and > Tempests could overhaul V1s. I thought the Sea Fury was even faster, > but I don't have a figure off-hand.
The key words being "in dives". The solver values are specified in level flight. And dives can matter a lot! Given the numbers and weights in the current configuration, the Mustang is getting around ~850 lbs of thrust in cruise. At its specified cruise weight of ~8000 lbs, it can double (!) its effective thrust thrust simply by entering a 5 degree dive. Thus my question about the configuration for the performance figure. I'd be happier believing it if we could confirm that it was with a stripped aircraft. The guns, radios, emergency equipment and fuel could easily add up to 20% of the weight or so, which would reduce the induced drag to 64% of its current value. Andy _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
