PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Pounds thrust to horsepower
View Single Post
Old 18th Oct 2005, 14:32
  #27 (permalink)  
XPMorten
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: north
Posts: 319
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
If your man has 33000 LB of thrust and a T/W of say 0.8, you could reasonably say he is about to charge down the runway with the equivalent power of 25 F1 motor cars.
Maybe - also, don't forget that a turbofan engine
will have lost around 15% of its thrust by
the time you get to Vr...

Cheers,

M
XPMorten is offline