When a transport plane flies between two airports, it flies usually at somewhat or considerably faster speed than that used to be refered as economic speed, which is the speed at which the plane can fly over that range with minimum fuel consumption and also the speed which corresponds to the maximum C
L/C
D of that airplane.
The greatest reason why the cruising speed used in practice is faster than the economical speed, is that the transport airplane is prefered to fly at the condition which corresponds to the maximum carrying capacity of that plane. (Carrying capacity F=W
p×V
c, where W
p is payload and V
c is cruising speed.)
In this paper, from the above-mentioned viewpoint, under the conditions of a given take-off weight and a given block flying distance, the ratio of the difference dV between practical speed V
p and economic speed V
e, to V
e is derived as a function of the terms take-off weight W
1, landing weight W
2, openating weight empty W
emp and payload W
p, where, dV is assumed small, and V
p is the speed which corresponds to the maximum carrying capacity for the plane.
And the results from applying this relation to many practical examples are compared with practical data.
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