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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: Octavius on September 30, 2004, 10:04:38 PM
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I always had a feeling the P40E roll rate was a tad sluggish. I couldn't put my finger on it. I have read in many different places that the P40's roll rate was considered to be very good for it's time. Of course of the various articles I've come across where I found a roll rate was from a pilot's point of view, and thus subjective.
Aside from my own subjective 'feeling', I never had any data available to me to test the rate in AH. I have recently come across some data and I would like to test it.
The only problem is I don't know the proper way to test this out. Since the data I have did not specify just how it was attained, I have a few questions:
[list=1]1) What fuel settings should I use? 25%, 50%?
2) At what altitude should these tests be conducted?
3) What do I measure? ie, full roll, half roll, quarter roll...
4) If a full roll, should I keep the nose level by using elevator and/or rudder input?[/list]
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Originally posted by Octavius
I always had a feeling the P40E roll rate was a tad sluggish. I couldn't put my finger on it. I have read in many different places that the P40's roll rate was considered to be very good for it's time. Of course of the various articles I've come across where I found a roll rate was from a pilot's point of view, and thus subjective.
Aside from my own subjective 'feeling', I never had any data available to me to test the rate in AH. I have recently come across some data and I would like to test it.
The only problem is I don't know the proper way to test this out. Since the data I have did not specify just how it was attained, I have a few questions:
[list=1]1) What fuel settings should I use? 25%, 50%?
2) At what altitude should these tests be conducted?
3) What do I measure? ie, full roll, half roll, quarter roll...
4) If a full roll, should I keep the nose level by using elevator and/or rudder input?[/list][/size] [/B]
Test data usually specifies the aircraft's weight, altitude and speed at which the tests were performed and some even specify air temperature.
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Don't really know if this will help...
http://www.barans.spb.ru/files/rgreat/rollrate.pdf