Re: Harrier questions
Posted: 27 Oct 2007, 14:20
High TWR is obviously useful for more than VTOL ops - but then this has started making me think about how Drag will affect that aspect of TWR :roll:SkippyBing wrote: The figures for the F-15 and Typhoon sound plausible, but again it's unlikely they'd ever be operated like that as you'd be better off hanging some more fuel and stores on the thing so it'd do something useful once it got airborne. The Tornado one does sound more like an aircraft with a warload however, bearing in mind it hasn't got the punchiest engines going.
Edited to add at max tax off weight the F-15 gets a TWR of around 0.8.
which of course is not so much of an issue when doing a brute-force lift off the deck/hang in the air... :think:
