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Old 10-31-2009 | 04:27 PM
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Default RE: can you compensate for weight?

It's not a question of power to weight. At some point when the wing loading goes up the handling goes from pleasent to cut throat. That's why the Spitfire pilots hated the later higher powered planes more and why nice models become not so nice when overweight regardless of fiting a bigger engine to them in an attempt to compensate.