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Old 11-18-2015, 09:15 PM   #21 (permalink)
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...beats walking...
 
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FWIW - The Lockheed 749 Constellation with "jet-stack" (short) exhaust pipes actually "...added 15 mph at the maximum cruising speed..." (*) from exiting exhaust gases!



(*) see page 53, C.K. Stringfellow & P.M. Bowers, Lockheed Constellation, 1992, MBI Publications.


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