It does if you want to do it at mach 1+ Do the sums. Rather than criticise someone else who actually has done them.
Watts per pound is rate of climb. You can take an elephant straight up with a 10W motor as long as you don't mind it dying before its got more than an inch from the floor.
F*ck off. That suit you? Spelt correctly enough?
Hey DH (been a while since you signed a post with that one) You are far from perfect. Very few in a modeling forum speak of a rider scale bird when deciding what power is needed for the models we fly. In most cases we use significantly more power than the rider scale stuff does. In short, I think your numbers have too much brown porridge in them. Most real modelers understand that flying a model at mach 1 + is impossible due to limitations in human physiology.
I said an F16. A real one Do keep up there at the back.
Not when you're moving air as your means of propulsion you can't...
Wow- your college degree is doing you a lot of good. we're all impressed. It ain't that difficult- Uncle Pauly
Hey DH, I was astounded to note that you did not even bother to read what was said rather launched right into another attack. I guess reading was not one of your best subjects...
I see your intellectual might impressed Uncle Pauly also.
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