On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, xerj wrote:

let's say you're in flight in a normally aspirated prop plane, your
destination is blown up, your alternate is unservicable for some reason
or other and you need to stretch the fuel you have the farthest distance
possible.

Wouldn't it simply be your airplane's best glide speed? Or am I missing
something?

Of course if you can't avoid fighting a headwind, you'd have to do some
math with ground speed vs. fuel consumption at some higher airspeed to
find max range. Or is that what you're looking for?

-Dan