109 engine load vibration

[TomcatViP]

Originally Posted by phoenix1963

No, top speed in level flight is ALWAYS limited to the point where engine power (and efficiency in getting that power into actual thrust) matches drag, no matter how old the aircraft is.



No, the modern fighter pilot has less to gain by dipping the nose because the power-to-weight ratio is so much higher now.



No, any pursuer could slightly dive as well, but it would be an advantage for the aircraft with less increase in drag with speed.



Diving is simply a convenient way of speeding up.

Nothing personal Tomcat, but either you need to read-up about aerodynamics, or you are trolling.

56RAF_phoenix

It might be tht you are reading me trought some critism enhancer lens.

1st no : of course didn't say either... it's just way more simple to let the nose drop down : do the math (thrust to weight approx 0.2+ and 1-cos 30=0.2-)

2nd no : if you are going trought transonic flight it's way much easier to do it at alt.

3rd no : I wasn't discussing tht case. But you are true. We hve alrdy discussed tht point elsewhere do I guess right ?

Your conclusion coroborate what I am only saying : it's way more simle to deep the nose than to fight the ctrls and your eng para in a long flat run to max speed.

For the biplan exemple: you can put a wright cyclone on a Spad XIII it won't go much faster... How wait ... the Russians did it in the An2

So as I said we went from drag limitted plane to Eng pow limmitted monoplanes. But of course it's a comparaison. You don't hve to take me by the word saying tht I declare the monoplanes to be drag free!