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Navy Catapult Experts?
« on: March 23, 2001, 03:11:00 PM »
A colleague of mine is trying to figure out how to use the the first chart on the last page of this document:
 http://www.aiaa.org/Education/undergradaircraft.pdf

The title is "Typical C13-2 Minimum Performance and Load Factor Curves."

It's part of a specification for a design project he is working on.  If anybody knows how this chart is used, my friend would be very grateful!

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Navy Catapult Experts?
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2001, 09:18:00 AM »
I can't read the chart reference sub-window speed in knots. It's too blurry. Deadload endpseed looks like the speed of a non-powered weight at the end of the deck. Weight is fairly straight forward. To me this looks like the load chart for a carrier's catapult. So many PSI of steam required for an aircraft of a given weight. If I could read the darn sub-window speeds I could probably figure it out.


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