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Old 29th Oct 2015, 20:18
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how to calculate top speed of an aircraft if I know these:
Clearly these are not enough. The most obvious missing item is some drag value, something that will account for the shape of the fuselage/empannage, in other words aerodynamic properties of the airplane as a whole. MTOW and wing profile aren't enough.
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