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Old 06-12-2012, 10:19 AM
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BTW2 I just looked in my crystal ball a saw that soon my sayings will be denied and scans from various books will be posted with thick, red underlinings
I'd hate to dissapoint so here goes.

No it is a function of density altitude, a supercharger produces an excess of pressure which it can only maintain until it reaches a certain level of air density due to volumetric efficiency,atmospheric density is very much affected by temperature and atmospheric pressure is not, if conditions were ISA exactly then density altitude would equal pressure altitude, inevitably temparature varies and whenever things are on the hot side performance is reduced and vice versa, so it stands to reason performance is dependent on density, you only have to look at aircraft performance charts to see this is true, jet engines have the same problem, after all a supercharger is just a centrifugal compressor just like you find on some jets.
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