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Title: 262 can it be true?
Post by: SELECTOR on July 17, 2003, 05:59:05 PM

i read today in flypast magazine that a 262 had a turning circle of aprox 11 miles ... is this true?

Title: 262 can it be true?
Post by: Staga on July 17, 2003, 07:07:19 PM

Well SR71 takes about 500km (IIRC) to turn around at full steam thought my guess is it takes less when under Mach 1.

Title: Re: 262 can it be true?
Post by: HoHun on July 17, 2003, 10:57:09 PM

Hi Selector,

>i read today in flypast magazine that a 262 had a turning circle of aprox 11 miles ... is this true?

No.

Imagine it going 720 km/h (200 m/s) at an altitude where it can still pull 5 G (or actually a bit more to avoid losing altitude). That will result in a turning circle of 1630 m or pretty exactly 1 mile.

Of course, in the thinner air at increasing altitude, it will lose the ability to pull 5 G, though. Still, as long as it's able to sustain at least 1.4 G, the turning circle at even at the aircraft's top speed of 880 km/h will not increase beyond 12.2 km or 7.6 miles.

Regards,

Henning (HoHun)

Title: 262 can it be true?
Post by: frank3 on July 18, 2003, 04:54:19 AM

The turning circle will ofcourse decrease when at lower speeds.

oh and staga, I think the Blackbird is a bit too modern to mention here ;)
that thing goes over mach 3 :eek:

Title: 262 can it be true?
Post by: SELECTOR on July 18, 2003, 11:20:40 AM

good points i was alarmed at the mag as the artical was written by a 262 pilot..

Title: 262 can it be true?
Post by: rshubert on July 18, 2003, 11:30:47 AM

Maybe they forgot to do the math when converting his answer in KM into miles.

Title: 262 can it be true?
Post by: WestyAH on July 18, 2003, 11:58:55 AM

"I think the Blackbird is a bit too modern to mention here...
that thing goes over mach 3 "

God bless that Kurt Tank.

;)

Title: 262 can it be true?
Post by: swoopy on July 18, 2003, 04:09:48 PM

yes it is true just do the math 500mph start to turn how far have u travelled.

i like the bit where he shook the engine mount bolts off :eek:

Flypast never prints false statements there all facts