Flying on the step?

In article ,
"Peter Duniho" wrote:



[emphasis mine] True...that's what's already been said. Though, in truth,
if you you simply set cruise power, you would eventually accelerate to the
desired cruise speed. It would just take a lot longer.

Well, no, you wouldn't. I know this from experience in the airplane.

No, it wasn't. Basic thermodynamics (conservation of energy) dispute that
claim. The time you spent climbing could have been spend accelerating at
climb power, and in the end you'd reach your cruise speed at practically the
same time either way.

Sure worked quicker for us. We tried both methods.

He'd have to be pretty ham fisted to drop from cruise speed all the way down
below best L/D to the other equilibrium speed for the power setting. A
pilot that ham-fisted shouldn't be trusted with a Cessna 150, never mind a
B-24.

It's very easy to do in the B-24, you don't have to be a bad pilot, just
not used to the quirks of the Liberator.

I'm speaking from experience flying the airplane. How much time do you
have in a B-24?

--
Dale L. Falk

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing around with airplanes.

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