Heavier vs Lighter TOP SPEED

[Mathman]

Originally posted by MANDOBLE
Faster connection = faster planes. You speed is proportional to your ping.

Cool, I am going to get a T3 connect so that I can still fly my F6F and outpace all those guys on 56k's that are flying 262's.

[ccvi]

ping time has nothing to do with bandwith.

[MANDOBLE]

Toad, I have had a good laughting time with your post. Now try to read something else than the topic of the thread alone.

Now go to TA with another player, pickup 190A5, one with 100%, the other with 75% and be sure both have a good cnx, and then go to max speed and tell me the differences u notice. Then repeat the test with u or the other having cnx degraded.

[Toad]

I read all of this thread.. it was like a good novel that I just couldn't put down.  

The weight part was the best, of course.

The connex part was good too. If you are still wondering about it, I'd suggest re-reading what HT told you. Maybe he'll pop in and give it another try but I still don't think you'd be convinced.

Perhaps one of those absolutely free calls via the Internet to Grapevine to talk to HT one-on-one would help you.

Anyway, continue. In this thread, you are quite entertaining.

[AKDejaVu]

I've read this thread a few times trying to figure out just what the hell mandoble is trying to say.

I went on-line and ran this test with a 190A-5.  I took it to 5000 feet and leveled.  I accelerated to 275 IAS and then dove to the deck where I acheived around 450 IAS then leveled off below 100 feet.  I let the speed settle and took a snapshot.

With a full tank of gas:


And with a quarter tank of gas:


There really wasn't much difference, with the slight edge going to the plane with less fuel (the lighter plane).

Then it occured to me... mandoble is probably refering to acceleration.  That's when I really started to laugh.

Mandoble... does it take more work to move something that weighs 1000 lbs vs something that weighs 10 lbs?  Do you know what horsepower is a measure of?

AKDejaVu