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Originally Posted by BG-09
Oleg, would you implement direct relation between the fire temperature and the speed of the burning aircraft, because of strong oxygen supply in to the fire on board of the burning aircraft? Extreme temperatures must destroy the aircraft way much faster, than if the aircraft is just burning as a log in to the fireplace on the ground. Dependences must be:
Higher air speed=more oxygen in to the fire=extreme temperatures=faster destruction of the aircraft.
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Higher airspeed means more oxygen but also more cooling. It doesn't always work that way, it's the difference between blowing out a candle or trying to blow out your gas stove which is burning at max. Not every fire has the same intensity. Hydraulic oil, engine oil and fuel all have different properties.
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I have read, the memoirs of Johannes Steinchoff, and he wrote, that the propellers of the Bf-109 in Sicily were shining at the sun as a mirror, because they where polished as mirrors from the dust picked in to the air by the aircraft starting in front of the next Bf-109. The dust in to the air have polished the air propeller, because of the rotation of the propeller in to the dusty air full with sand. The mix of dust and sand acts just as sandpaper at the paint and the metal. Please consider this effect, and implement it in SoW.
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That's bad news for wooden props.