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Old 14th January 2001 | 22:07
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A and C
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Run up into wind is a relic from the days of the spitfire with a liquid cooled engine and a small radiator the thing would overheat at the drop of a hat so all the help that it could get in the way of cool air was welcome.

Pointing a modern aircooled engine into wind makes no diference at all in practice and just gives slightly more RPM on the max power check .
for C of A airtests the run up is required to be done cross wind so a true max RPM can be seen.

How ever i think that the run up should not be done with a tail wind as the max RPM would be low due to a high prop angle of attack and for taildraggers pointing into wind will reduce the danger of the aircraft weather cocking in gusting wind conditions.
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