Author Topic: Drop tanks (Read 4099 times)

zorstorer · « **Reply #45 on:** May 24, 2006, 10:49:35 PM »

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Originally posted by Raptor01
Terminal velocity is not effected by weight, but by wind resistance. Why does a baseball fall faster than a large piece of plywood (assuming it is not falling on it's side).
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When drag is equal to weight you are at terminal velocity.

Krusty · « **Reply #46 on:** May 25, 2006, 01:36:31 AM »

If drag were equal to weight, wouldn't you be hovering?

Debonair · « **Reply #47 on:** May 25, 2006, 01:45:08 AM »

but there is no drag standing still, so then you start falling again

zorstorer · « **Reply #48 on:** May 25, 2006, 07:50:21 AM »

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Originally posted by Debonair
but there is no drag standing still, so then you start falling again

Ding ding ding

Brenjen · « **Reply #49 on:** May 25, 2006, 10:18:35 AM »

It just becomes the invisible barrier that the object can't break through. It doesn't cause it to hover, only to not fall any faster.

Pooface · « **Reply #50 on:** May 25, 2006, 10:24:47 AM »

no no, iirc terminal velocity has nothing to do with weight. terminal velocity is where the drag or deceleration on the object reaches -9.81m/s/s, which counters the acceleration due to gravity and results in no net speed change. and that would mean that the only thing that affects it is surface area. im not 100% sure on that, but i think that'sw how it is

and krusty, if you stopped moving, then there would be no air resistance

Debonair · « **Reply #51 on:** May 25, 2006, 01:33:51 PM »

so you're not sure, but you're willing to make authoratative sounding posts based on your opinion of how it probably should be?
what did you do to be banned from google?
is this an audition for straight men in a dilbert cartoon?

Brenjen · « **Reply #52 on:** May 25, 2006, 02:55:58 PM »

what does "authoratative sounding" actually mean? Wouldn't that be more in the way you take it than the way it was written?

But · « **Reply #53 on:** May 25, 2006, 03:40:52 PM »

WHO CARES mabey a drop tank should rip off a wing but do you think it would acctually hit it and physics isnt relivent and doesnt matter in this curcumstance and does it matter NO:O

hubsonfire · « **Reply #54 on:** May 25, 2006, 03:52:27 PM »

Since we don't have fire, gas, or API rounds in the game, none of this matters even the slightest.

But · « **Reply #55 on:** May 25, 2006, 04:02:45 PM »

it is just useless:furious

Murdr · « **Reply #56 on:** May 25, 2006, 04:45:19 PM »

Cc raptor01, other than just to tell a story the point I was making was that
a) A drop tank of avg impacting the ground and having the conditions to ignite was the exception not the rule.
b) Even trying to ignite spilled fuel with tracers is an iffy proposition.

Weight is a factor in terminal velocity. Object in motion tends to stay in motion and all that. The more mass the object has, the more force is required to stop it. The full drop tank would require more force to counter its accleration than the empty one...but since the resistive force (drag) is the same for both, the heavier tank has a higher terminal velocity. Go look up the equation for it.

But · « **Reply #57 on:** May 25, 2006, 04:47:54 PM »

who accually CRARES how fast a drop tank falls How would changing the speed help the game?

I just use my drop tanks on long distanst flights and drop when empty not back-up bombs

Brenjen · « **Reply #58 on:** May 25, 2006, 06:23:14 PM »

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Originally posted by But
it is just useless:furious

Then don't reply, is it hurting your brain because you don't understand? Or because you have to pass it up without replying?

Nemeth · « **Reply #59 on:** May 25, 2006, 06:30:23 PM »

ok im sick of the usless arguing of physics now.. and i guess ppl hate the idea of having DT's that do damage... so i guess this thread is usless... unless ppl still want to argue about the 9.8m/s/s of earths gravitational pull... (yes i kno that only within 100 km of earths surface or aprox 45 mi [note: dont argue about this!]

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