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Mad (Flt) Scientist
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gearpins has it the right way around.
at a fixed speed and fixed power setting, a lighter aircraft will have a greater rate of descent than a heavier aircraft, due, as he notes, to the weight component along the flightpath contributing to "thrust".
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