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Old 22nd August 2006, 23:44
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Re: Bf 109E rate of roll

I refined my rough calculations a bit. The earlier was based only for the time of a full roll of the Bf 109F-4 used in DVL's test but if we suppose that the Bf's rollrate accelerates to full rate during the first 45deg (this is made only because I have info only for time to first 45 deg ,unfortunately for a 109E as shown in the first graph posted by O. Menu but according to Raunio, op. cit, also G-6 took the same time (4sec) at a little over 600kmh to achieve 45deg , (Raunio doesn't give his source) and the time for a full roll for the 109F-4. And also to keep the maths simple). So the according to this refined but still rough calculation it was around 325mph/523kmh(IAS) / 378mph/608kmh(TAS) when the rollrate at 10000ft of the Bf 109F-4 dropped lower than that of almost all of the fighters used in the NACA test and at appr. 375mph/603kmh(IAS) its rollrate is the same as that of Typhoon which had the clearly worst rollrate over 330mph(IAS) among those fighters used in the NACA test (Zero's measurements seemed to stop at 330mph(IAS)).
OK this is my last calculation for a while!!!
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