Originally posted by hitech:
RAM: Nice post, to bad your conclusions are all wrong, Moment of inertia i.e. (rotational mass) does not effect roll rate, it only effects the time needed to change your current roll rate i.e. accelerate or deacclerate the roll.
Hitech note that I am talking ALL The time on ROLLING INERTIA and INITIAL ROLL RATE. I dont talk at any time on SUSTAINEd rollrate.
Heck, one of the best roller planes in AH is a P38 at 350mph IAS...once you managed to make it roll,because it still is one of the planes with the worse roll inertia (with those 2 big engines out of its central axis
)
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What I feel mushy in Wb is the INITIAL rollrate, I mean, to put a 190 in a roll feels like putting a spifire in the roll. And sorry but that is quite wrong...yes, once you are rolling, the 190 rolls faster, but then again to change the direction of your roll takes ages, and that can't be right.
I think you mistook my post, read it again. I talk all the time on the roll INERTIA, in the mechanics on how a plane stops rolling to one side and starts rolling the the other, etc...all linked with the roll inertia, not the
sustained ROLL RATE.
[This message has been edited by RAM (edited 11-26-2000).]
