On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Gary Neely wrote: > Syd places an enormous amount of effort and care into his models. If > it were me, I'd think twice before questioning something he did, and > I'd be darned sure I did my homework first, because it's certain he > will have. But if he says he's interested in suggestions for > improvements, he means it, and without ego. > > I have a friend who worked as a mechanical safety inspector at the > Miami airport cargo facility back in the mid-90's, and he used to tell > me of how unladen aircraft would sometimes depart at seemingly > unbelievable steep angles. It was from his descriptions that I first > started to understand the power of those engines that sit hidden in > the throats of airliner intakes. >
I don't know what engine the FG 777-200 uses, but if it were equipped with a pair of GE-110B engines, you're looking at 220,200lbs of thrust on an airplane with an empty operating weight of about 297,000lbs. That's really close to a 1:1 thrust to weight ratio and as a result that bird will climb like a homesick angel. :) g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_! Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. Free Software Download: http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
