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Old 28th Jan 2012, 08:07
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It will be lower, due to the lower exhaust backpressure. IIRC, Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators has an excellent description of this. Hopefully not edited out in later editions in spite of kerosene torches having replaced Aeroplanes.
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