On Mar 16, 2:08 pm, Dan wrote:
On Mar 16, 5:51 pm, "Ken S. Tucker" wrote:
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My 3.1416 cents.
Ferrying A/C across the Pacific, I read, the fella's
would experiment with lean ratio's and speed.
The idea was to max the fuel burn efficiency and
minimize the induced wing drag.
Of course that needs to consider the parasitic
drag of the fuselage, tail and so on.
From the standpoint of aerodynamic engineering,
experience is the answer.
Ken

I'm a bit confused by what the point is...
But a JPI + GAMInjectors makes leaning lean of peak feasible and
productive.

Well the discussion is about maxing endurance
which is a similiar problem to maxing range.
Two a/c of nearly equal weight, say a Flying wing
and B-52, have different numbers, of course.
Ken