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Originally Posted by skyking
so now I'm down to .60 eh?
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I've deleted my comment about the Me-109.It's a cinch that I'm attempting to vibrate way above my assigned frequency whenever I get into aeronautical stuff.
Anyway,I rehashed the numbers:
At sea-level,the 1,200-hp engine,working through a variable-pitch prop of 0.78 efficiency delivers 920-lbs of thrust,plus 140-lbs from the exhaust,for a total 1060-lbs.
At terminal velocity,drag equals thrust.
At sea-level the plane will max out at 292 mph.
The frontal projected area of the entire plane is about 31.112 sq-ft.
Setting F= 1060-lbs,and using standard density,solving for the frontal-area based drag coefficient yields Cd 0.156 (1984 Ford Probe-IV ).
While the 0.60 Dodge is a bit higher,it looks like it is possible to match the Cd of the Messerschmitt.Of course,it will no longer ;look' like a 'Dodge' but it will have the low Cd.
The piece de resistance would be matching a 1935 Douglas DC-3,at Cd 0.12!