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Tu144d From United States of America, joined Apr 2002, 198 posts, RR: 3
Posted (10 years 3 months 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 1781 times:

I know this is a tech. question but since it concerns a military aircraft I'm posting it here. I was doing a flight mechanics problem in which i had to calculate the balanced field length for an A-10 Warthog. I got 2000 ft. Does anyone know the actual value for it?

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DeltaMD11 From United States of America, joined Dec 2002, 1698 posts, RR: 38
Reply 1, posted (10 years 3 months 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 1720 times:

I cant tell you the actualy value, but I live very close to NAS JRB Willow Grove, and spend a lot of time on the base with an aircraft restoration organization I'm involved with, and I'd say a ballpark figure would be about 2000 feet...doesn't take much to get those puppies in the air.

Bryan

Too often we ... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Tomh From United States of America, joined May 1999, 960 posts, RR: 3
Reply 2, posted (10 years 3 months 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 1708 times:

I noticed you didn't mention anything about aircraft fuel or munitons load-is this somehow taken into consideration by using the term "Balanced Field" length?

Tomh

Tu144d From United States of America, joined Apr 2002, 198 posts, RR: 3
Reply 3, posted (10 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1635 times:

No, all we were given in the problem was assume Gross-Weight=103040N and we were given a drag polar as well as the thrust of the engines.I revised my calculations and got 2600ft now..Anyway, i turned the problem in already. Let's hope I'm right...BTW, i did this the cheap way assuming an avg. force. Some other people in my class did it thru numeric integration of the force but our answers only differed by about 5%. That's good I hope.

-Vik-

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