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Are we really to believe that trained professional aviators and supporting aircraft technicians at the top of their game due to the intensity of war, with experience of constant life or death combat sorties, are getting IAS and TAS mixed up? I find such a thing very hard to believe.
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It is a tough concept I understand to grasp the fact compressibility corrections are calculated.
It is another tough one to grasp the fact that all instruments are calibrated by machines whose scale reflects that calculation.
It is also a tough one to grasp the fact the country leading the way on compressible aerodynamics, was Germany. Of course TASGI could determine TAS from IAS but not on the same scale.
Think of it like this. The russians are calibrating their dials with a yardstick and the Germans with a meter.
1 yard = .91 meters
When the Germans reaches 300kph, the Russian instrument will show 273kph.
Using the wrong calibration equipment will slip the scale the throw off the results.