DaveReidUK
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Reading, UK
Posts: 856
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It is worth remembering that at a given weight you will always have the same inertia
Inertia is a function of mass, not weight.
On its way to the Moon, Apollo had a lot of inertia but weighed nothing at one point
If that is true, would inertia in zero gravity space be equivalent to Vsquared ?
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It seems to me that there is not much attention paid to the cleanliness of aerodynamic profiles in modern heavies and that is also a contributing factor to it taking longer to slow down. My high performance glider, when loaded with water has a longer slowing down time when decellerating in level flight (vs a Schweitzer 222, which is a big drag queen in the gliding world !)