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Old January 8th 06, 07:24 PM posted to rec.aviation.misc
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Default Concorde vs Tornado F3

clipclip schrieb:

i seriously doubt the tornado has enough fuel to fly for 2 hours at
those speeds, and if it did, it probably wouldn't have enough to make
it back to base since it would probably be over some ocean (since it
probably wouldn't be authorised to chase it over eastern europe and
asia).


But since the engines would be dead long before the fuel runs out this
is a very theroretical scenario. I don't know the data for the F3
version but the GR variants can fly around 30min in max reheat and
around 15min in combat before the throttle has to be taken back to ~70%
dry thrust, otherwise it would kill the engine...

Benjamin