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Old 02-03-2006 | 09:17 PM
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Default RE: Measuring Thrust

I don't think anybody's mentioned it, so I will. Static thrust is not dynamic thrust, so who knows what goes on in flight. For real airplanes you will never see a thrust measurement on anything but jets. You cannot measure how a prop engine unwinds when its flying.

I agree with kdheath: there is too much emphasis on power these days. If you were flying with scale power, a .40 size trainer would have .25, maybe. Have you ever ridden an airliner where the pilot flips inverted on take-off and climbs to 40,000? I don't think so...