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Offline Oddball-CAF

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Re: Aces High Planes Fuel Chart
« Reply #15 on: September 06, 2011, 07:16:54 PM »
Nice.  Although I should mention that the Me262 is not accurate.  Since your fuel economy improves when you gain speed, it turns out to be closer to ~35 minutes of flight time.

Thanks for the input, Grizz. I'll rework it to 35, then.

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Re: Aces High Planes Fuel Chart
« Reply #16 on: September 06, 2011, 07:18:09 PM »
Not that I fly bombers but I didn't see anything for the B-24. Did I miss it somewhere?

Great chart!
Boo

Hi Boo, thanks for the input. It is indeed an oversight on my part. I'm goin' in now
to add that and amend the 262 to 35 mins per Grizz advice.

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Re: Aces High Planes Fuel Chart
« Reply #17 on: September 06, 2011, 07:24:46 PM »
how does the P47M gain fuel economy as it uses more power? just one of the "off" things i dont get about engines... :headscratch:

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Re: Aces High Planes Fuel Chart
« Reply #18 on: September 06, 2011, 07:39:28 PM »
how does the P47M gain fuel economy as it uses more power? just one of the "off" things i dont get about engines... :headscratch:


Without getting too specific on something I only casually know about... the P-47M uses a water injection system when using WEP... thereby burning LESS fuel while using WEP.... or something like that.

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Re: Aces High Planes Fuel Chart
« Reply #19 on: September 06, 2011, 07:40:55 PM »

Without getting too specific on something I only casually know about... the P-47M uses a water injection system when using WEP... thereby burning LESS fuel while using WEP.... or something like that.
ahhh..ok. but i thought the jug used a canister (im at a lack of words for the actual thing) to inject cold air into the engine making it faster.

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Re: Aces High Planes Fuel Chart
« Reply #20 on: September 06, 2011, 10:43:18 PM »
Here is what AKDogg looks like.  Not sure if he update it with the latest additions.

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Re: Aces High Planes Fuel Chart
« Reply #21 on: September 06, 2011, 11:46:19 PM »
Thanks for the input, Grizz. I'll rework it to 35, then.

Regards, Odd

That was only a guess.  You'd probably have to get it to ~425mph and see what the GPH is at that speed.  Take (total # of initial gallons divided by that)*60 and you should be pretty close to an average value in minutes.