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Re: FW190 vs. BF109: Turn Radius (2011)
« Reply #270 on: September 03, 2011, 04:03:13 AM »
Think some of those CDo numbers are here:

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I believe the reference notes will give a hint re: which 190 was tested.
... missions were to be met by the commitment of alerted swarms of fighters, composed of Me 109's and Fw 190's, that were strategically based to protect industrial installations. The inferior capabilities of these fighters against the Mosquitoes made this a hopeless and uneconomical effort. 1.JD KTB

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Re: FW190 vs. BF109: Turn Radius (2011)
« Reply #271 on: September 03, 2011, 09:49:25 AM »
No.  I haven't researched them yet...

Let me restate, I have the Cd0 for the Jug from America's Hundred Thousand.  The rest I don't have.
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Re: FW190 vs. BF109: Turn Radius (2011)
« Reply #272 on: September 03, 2011, 04:26:12 PM »
Fargin linky no worky. Maybe this will:



Should have some CDo stuff for Spit 5 and 190. Will try to find out which 190 in particular.
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... missions were to be met by the commitment of alerted swarms of fighters, composed of Me 109's and Fw 190's, that were strategically based to protect industrial installations. The inferior capabilities of these fighters against the Mosquitoes made this a hopeless and uneconomical effort. 1.JD KTB

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Re: FW190 vs. BF109: Turn Radius (2011)
« Reply #273 on: September 03, 2011, 04:36:21 PM »
... missions were to be met by the commitment of alerted swarms of fighters, composed of Me 109's and Fw 190's, that were strategically based to protect industrial installations. The inferior capabilities of these fighters against the Mosquitoes made this a hopeless and uneconomical effort. 1.JD KTB

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Re: FW190 vs. BF109: Turn Radius (2011)
« Reply #274 on: September 03, 2011, 08:52:12 PM »
Fargin linky no worky. Maybe this will:

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Should have some CDo stuff for Spit 5 and 190. Will try to find out which 190 in particular.

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Re: FW190 vs. BF109: Turn Radius (2011)
« Reply #275 on: September 04, 2011, 03:25:34 AM »
:aok  Thanks for posting Scherf!

No worries, just passing on good karma.

The full document is posted over in the Mosquito VI entry at the AH wiki site.
... missions were to be met by the commitment of alerted swarms of fighters, composed of Me 109's and Fw 190's, that were strategically based to protect industrial installations. The inferior capabilities of these fighters against the Mosquitoes made this a hopeless and uneconomical effort. 1.JD KTB

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Re: FW190 vs. BF109: Turn Radius (2011)
« Reply #276 on: September 06, 2011, 01:32:15 AM »
I don't get it. Compared to Mustang the profile drag is in same class, yet CDo is bigger than in Typhoon or Hurricane?  :headscratch:

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Re: FW190 vs. BF109: Turn Radius (2011)
« Reply #277 on: September 06, 2011, 04:32:18 AM »
I don't get it. Compared to Mustang the profile drag is in same class, yet CDo is bigger than in Typhoon or Hurricane?  :headscratch:

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It's normalized... Think about that denom - Which, based on the remarks, looks to be all over the place.
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Re: FW190 vs. BF109: Turn Radius (2011)
« Reply #278 on: September 06, 2011, 01:36:43 PM »
Absolute values for flat plate areas can be easily calculated by multiplying the Cd0 with wing area.

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Re: FW190 vs. BF109: Turn Radius (2011)
« Reply #279 on: September 06, 2011, 02:58:51 PM »
Yeah, sure. But where does the CDo figure come from?

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Re: FW190 vs. BF109: Turn Radius (2011)
« Reply #280 on: September 06, 2011, 03:10:38 PM »
Yeah, sure. But where does the CDo figure come from?

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Probably from some sort of component build-up method given the way the chart is broken down.  Or, could be from flight test data that's then plugged into a formula that gives you the component parts. 
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Re: FW190 vs. BF109: Turn Radius (2011)
« Reply #281 on: September 06, 2011, 04:23:53 PM »
AFAIK that chart is calculated from the flight test data, each plane has a test refered in the right side.

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Re: FW190 vs. BF109: Turn Radius (2011)
« Reply #282 on: September 06, 2011, 05:10:19 PM »
Another thing to notice is that some of the planes are 'prototypes' that my not have the same gun config, different engines, etc... from the final production version.
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Re: FW190 vs. BF109: Turn Radius (2011)
« Reply #283 on: September 06, 2011, 05:26:38 PM »
Probably from some sort of component build-up method given the way the chart is broken down.  Or, could be from flight test data that's then plugged into a formula that gives you the component parts. 

Probably, because if you take the 100fps drag figure and divide it by the dynamic pressure and either ref area, or even if you use the speed cited in the remarks, it doesn't tie out to the CD0. I spent a little time today trying to get a match and was unable to succeed. Best I could do was about a factor of 2, leading me at one point to think they'd dropped the .5. Doubt it, though...
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Re: FW190 vs. BF109: Turn Radius (2011)
« Reply #284 on: September 06, 2011, 10:43:50 PM »
Probably, because if you take the 100fps drag figure and divide it by the dynamic pressure and either ref area, or even if you use the speed cited in the remarks, it doesn't tie out to the CD0. I spent a little time today trying to get a match and was unable to succeed. Best I could do was about a factor of 2, leading me at one point to think they'd dropped the .5. Doubt it, though...

Raymer's Book has a component buildup method that involves some pretty complicated formulas to do estimated drag numbers for each component like leakage and protuberance drag, for example, just like what the chart has broken out.  Could be some of the flight test data gives them some constants with which they can work up the individual component drag contributions.  I wouldn't take those numbers as dead-on, actual numbers, but more like very close estimates.
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