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'nuther question: highest TAS...
xerj wrote:
If you look at a performance chart, you'll see that the highest true airspeed for a normally aspirated aircraft is more likely to be around 6000 feet or so. Isn't that for something less than full power, i.e. 75%? I'm talking max power. Well, maybe so. My performance charts list speeds for 55%, 65% and 75% power only. The only time I fly at full throttle and more than 75% is on takeoff, and that's not a speed run... that's time to reach for the sky instead. Once I level off, I'll throttle back to 75% as a maximum... conducive to long engine life, etc. If the manufacturers had intended me to fly at 100% power, they'd include a performance chart for that setting. Of course, as I climb, full throttle yields less and less, unless I'm in a turbocharged aircraft. Even then, it runs out of oomph at some point. -- Mortimer Schnerd, RN VE |
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'nuther question: highest TAS...
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 03:03:30 GMT, "Marc J. Zeitlin"
wrote: The highest TAS of a propeller driven aircraft will occur at the highest altitude at which the power being developed can occur. In other words, if you want to fly at 65% power, fly at the highest altitude at which 65% power can be developed. That does make intuitive sense. Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA) |
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'nuther question: highest TAS...
The highest TAS of a propeller driven aircraft will occur at the highest
altitude at which the power being developed can occur. In other words, if you want to fly at 65% power, fly at the highest altitude at which 65% power can be developed. That makes sense. I actually found an article I'd forgotten about, about turbonormalization at the website I'd linked to earlier which shows it with power curves and other charts. http://www.nar-associates.com/techni...urbo/turbo.pdf |
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