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Old 30th October 2005 | 12:21
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Another factor to throw into the melting pot (only relevant to certain old aircraft, eg Chipmunk, Hunter, JP in fact anything British with no nose/tailwheel steering!) is the use of brakes to keep straight early in the T/O run. The manuals for some of these aircraft state that the take off run may be increased by this but make no attempt to quantify the effect! I often wondered what the penalty would be but never found any answers.

I guess there would also be a decrement in thrust caused by the air entering the jet intake (or the propeller) at the sideslip angle and also an increment of intake momentum drag!

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