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Excuse me, could anyone help me by telling me the factors that made an aircraft agile. Also, can anyone tell me the factors of speed in a fighter aircraft? Thanks.

An odd request and I’m not sure where it should go. I am working on a project and I need some Italian audio translated to English. I figured with the large international community we have here, it would be a good place to start. Below are three short Youtube videos in Italian. I would like to...

I found out some information on the Reno racer Rare Bear and thought the members might like to see it. A stock F8F-2 has a wing span of 35.5 ft and a wing area of 244 sq ft. Rare Bear’s specs are as follows: Span = 30.5 ft Area = 221.6 sq ft Effective Aspect Ratio = 4.20 Root Airfoil...

I was curious of what the top speed of the P-47 would be without wing pylons. I found that the Fw-190 found a 8-10kph increase in speed with the removal of its ETC 504(Which is located under the fuselage. By using common sense, it would only make sense if the P-51 had a better increase of speed...

Most descriptions of the rushed production of the Spitfire 5 state that the two speed Merlins could not be accommodated because of their extra length. This is of course rubbish since the ever adaptable Spitfire easily accommodated the very much longer two speed two stage Merlins and even the two...

In terms of outright speed, perhaps not. But where the performance was achieved was different. Here are tests of the P-40E and the P-40F http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/P-40/P-40F_41-13601_PHQ-M-19-1440-A.pdf...

General characteristics Crew: 2 Length: 8.00m (25ft 3in) Wingspan: 11.80m (38ft 8.5in) Height: 3.64m (11ft 11.25in) Wing area: 20m² (215.29ft²) Empty weight: 1,247kg (2,749lb) Loaded weight: 1,660kg (3,660lb) Power plant: 1 × Hitachi Army Type 98 Ha-13a...

Had WW2 dragged on a year or two longer the the Horton HO 229 and early Vampire jets may have met, I note the Hortons higher cieling and speed, that said, which do you think is best and would have fared better if flown by equal pilots?

For the naval recon role it seems that there was a better choice than the Fw200, the He116; it had comparable range using much weaker engines; with the same engines the He116 could have performed even better. Was there a reason it wasn't tried? Heinkel He 116 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...

Someone posted on an internet site the Do Not Exceed speed of the Bf109 was almost always 750km/hr /466mph He also wrote the Bf109 was one of the slower-diving planes of WW2 With Bf109G-10 speed of 428mph or there about Bf109K-4 a tad faster, then some crazy stuff in anti-Mosquito units...

Starting with the basic design of the Ju88 in 1935, how would you optimize it for speed with a minimum of 900kg internal payload and 1000 mile minimum range? Junkers Ju 88 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ju-88, Ju-188, Ju-288, Ju-388, Ju-488, .... Ju-888...

I was just looking at this report and found an interesting table on the effect of cowl flap operation on speed. Cowl Flap PositionCowl Flap Opening (in)True Speed (mph)Speed Loss (mph) Closed0284- 1/4 Open1-5/82786 1/2 Open3-1/426420 3/4 Open4-7/824935 Wide Open6-1/223648 This is...

Hello, Reading a bit about the Bf 109F, it seems that the 109F-4 introduced, after a small number were delivered, the air intake duct of increased size/area. The new duct provided better use of ram effect vs. the old, more restrictive one found in earlier 109Fs. The aircraft top speed was at...

How vulnerable were early model B-17s (C-Fs) in the Pacific when flying at 20-30K feet? While they may not be able to hit anything, when flying at top speed at altitude, couldn't they outrun Zeros? If so, they could be useful for reconnaissance and harassment.

Didn't know if this should be its own thread, or go in the "On the Deck" thread!! View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WREyAicJXkM From: http://rt.com/news/203779-rocket-powered-bicycle-record/

Does there exist a document that describes the flight characteristics in the Fw-190V27 aircraft with the long 12.3m wing instead of the standard 10.5m wing? I would like to know how much the longer wing with increased wing area of 20.3 sq/m vs the standard wing are of 18.3 sq/m affected things...

I am wondering that if anybody put a spinner cone on the nose of a P-47, how fast would the plane fly? And is there a mathematical solution? I am 12 years old and I like to know these things.