"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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John writes:

Ummm . . . a FW-190 (option: replace FW-190 with opponent on your six
. . . really close . . . perhaps still there and shooting after after
what you have just finished what you used to think was your very best
move . . . in my book that rises to the level of an emergency. At that
point getting the pilot home was goal one.

OK, but if you can only fly at emergency war power for five minutes,
and if it only offers a moderate advantage over normal maximum power,
it seems that there would be relatively few situations in which it
would make a difference. Either you'd be out of luck to begin with
and EWP wouldn't get you out of it, or you wouldn't be in danger and
so you wouldn't need EWP.

If EWP can give you an extra 50 kts, for example, at best you'd have
an advantage of five nautical miles when the engine disintegrates. If
the bad guys are only 30 knots slower, your advantage shrinks further.
And with a blown engine, you'll need to be completely out of danger
after five minutes, or all that effort wouldn't help.

Yes, but that 5 nm may be enough to get out of their range, or get back to
friendly air-cover, etc.

The piont of it being emergency power is you can't always predict when or
how it'll be used.



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