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Old 04-11-2009 | 02:37 PM
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Default RE: Measuring Total Plane Drag


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You can determine quite a bit by compairing speed in level flight to speed in a dive if you have use of a Radar gun and have spotters reading the dive angle.
Interesting. I'll have on-board telemetry for the velocity so no radar gun necessary. Do you have a link to some more information?