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Old 3rd Dec 2003, 21:56
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Black Baron
 
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The effect of increasing temperature is the same as increasing altitude.

The aircraft will have travelled a lesser distance on a cold day, in the same time span, yet has produced the same thrust, so it must be climbing at a steeper angle.

In the desert jets take forever to groan off the runway and then have very poor climb performance, in Antartica where its well below zero, their CAS is greater than their TAS, so they have excellent climb performance.

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