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Where are you getting this 10 number from. Wikipedia shows Eurofighter Typhoon as the highest T/W for a Jet airplane at 1.15 and The Concorde at 5.4 https://
by NikolaeVarius 6y ago
Where are you getting this 10 number from.
Wikipedia shows Eurofighter Typhoon as the highest T/W for a Jet airplane at 1.15 and The Concorde at 5.4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust-to-weight_ratio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust-to-weight_ratio
You WANT wings for supersonic flight (For a normal non missile aircraft). Sure it sucks that its hard to optimize for supersonic flight and subsonic, but you go Supersonic at extremely high altitudes to reduce drag on the plane. This requires a shit ton of power to go forward, without even counting the effort to stay in the air vertically.
- Gravityloss 6y agoThat's the plane. I was talking about the engine.
- NikolaeVarius 6y agoAn engine without a plane around it is called a brick
- baq 6y agoyes but a two engines with 10 TWR is worse than two engines with 20 TWR all other things being equal.
- NikolaeVarius 6y agoWhat is this even replying to
- tim333 6y agoNot always: https://youtu.be/YRBJixCmw1w https://youtu.be/YRBJixCmw1w
- Gravityloss 6y agohttps://disciplesofflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Aerodyne_SM.jpg https://disciplesofflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Aer... Lippisch Aerodyne. Looks a bit like the X-32 if you squint.
- redis_mlc 6y ago> you go Supersonic at extremely high altitudes to reduce drag on the plane. Well, that's not really the whole story. - jet engines are much more efficient at high altitudes (the thermodynamic equation) - air density is less at high altitudes - but you would have to calculate how less density and drag compare to engine efficiency.