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Old 11-26-2006 | 11:11 PM
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Harley Condra
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Joeflyer,
You're right.
Frictional losses of the tires is called "sticksion".
We did this at work on a SWB turbine powered small UAV in about 1996 to get a more accurate reading. We used a load cell instead of a fish scale.

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