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Old 21st Dec 2010, 10:54
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CliveL
 
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quote:I don't know why this popped into my head but what was her glide ratio if all the engines stopped? Maybe because I remember from my early training being told the a B707 had a better glide ratio than the PA28-140 I was learning in. Now that was an eye opener at the time.unquote

A lot depends on how fast you were flying. You can get pretty good values of Lift/Drag ratio (that defines the potential glide slope with all engines operating, if that is not a contradiction in terms) from the Concorde B pages of the Concorde SST site. The actual glide slope with engines out would have been a lot worse than those numbers because of windmilling and (supersonically) intake spillage drag.

Nowhere near any subsonic values!

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