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Old 10-11-2012, 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by IvanK View Post
The lower curves are simply Ps=o lines that represent the Sustained G (at the altitude the chart is calculated for) that each aircraft can sustain with out losing altitude or TAS.

Correction to the Book title its

"Boyd The fighter pilot who changed the art of war " essential reading if you are into this stuff. The book covers in great detail how these early EM charts were calculated... the story about how they got the computing assets and time is a classic.

http://www.amazon.com/Boyd-Fighter-P.../dp/0316796883

Boyd was the father of the OODA loop.
Even better http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/158365-1

But I believe this topic is well over the heads of your average person that's plays this GAME and doesn't care. But there is a magazine for everyone I guess.