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Old 14th March 2007 | 10:22
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Islander2
 
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SNS3Guppy,
Vx occurs at your minimum drag speed.
That's a little bit of an oversimplification ... Vx actually occurs at the speed which gives maximum excess thrust (i.e. maximum difference between thrust and drag).

True this is immaterial for a jet, where thrust is reasonably constant with speed, because Vmd and Vmet will coincide. It's a different story for a propeller aircraft, however. Here, thrust decreases with increasing speed, so Vmet will be much closer to Vs than in a jet and can be significantly lower than the minimum drag speed.
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