Not sure, but seem to remember that the gun is set to do not
more than 50 round bursts, 1 second and they have about 20
bursts (1100 rounds)



"Morgans" wrote in message
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| "Frank Ch. Eigler" wrote
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| Whether that's "quick" or "a myth" depends on your point
of view (and
| on whether I did my estimations correctly).
|
| What you failed to take into account, is that the engines
keep applying
| thrust, and will partially negate that issue, and that the
gun is nearly
| always fired while the airplane is in a rather steep
descent (to get guns on
| target), so there is more force to keep the airplane from
slowing down.
|
| So it appears as though it would take considerably more to
slow the airplane
| to stall speed, and it the guns fired much longer, they
would be a molten
| pile of metal, or out of ammo. Anyone remember how many
seconds of ammo are
| carried?
|
| As to the engines ingesting the gun smoke, consider how
much air they take
| in. Massive amounts. Most of that is bypassed around the
engine, so only a
| little is burned. Even if some of the smoke is taken in,
I doubt that it is
| enough to make the engine even stutter.
| --
| Jim in NC
|