NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19930090779: Climbing efficiency of aircraft

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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19930090779: Climbing efficiency of aircraft
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1927
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19930090779: Climbing efficiency of aircraft

Author: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Year: 1927

The object of this report was to indicate that we frequently only make use of 50 percent of the maximum brake horsepower of the engine in taking off the ground, that this loss is not inevitable, and that the effort to get engines of low weight per horsepower by boosting revolutions is of very little use to bombers and commercial airplanes.

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