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Old 04-30-2006 | 07:09 PM
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Default RE: Wing Loading and Vertical Performance

No quite. For vertical, excess thrust is Thrust minus weight minus DRAG. Can't forget drag, which is considerable at IMAC airspeeds. You would get much much less than a 25% performance increase in your example.