ORIGINAL: topspeed
I used the AR-5 site for the Bruce Carmichael example following drag calculations for my pusher ac.
The AR-5 story gives me hope seeing an amateur like us competing with the experts. I'm assuming your talking about Carmichael's article [link=http://www.ar-5.com/condrag94.html]here[/link].
His analysis seems to work backward from the maximum level flight velocity recorded by the NAA using the level fight relation I described above. I think I need that before I can do any component analysis. Or am I missing something?