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04-05-2008, 10:10 AM

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Mike Connor

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RE: Mach 1 tip speed

The "helical" tip speed in flight Vtip is obtained by adding the airspeed V to the rotation tip speed Vr using the rule of vector addition.

Vtip = SQR( Vr ^ 2 + V ^ 2 )

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