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I believe "C" represents a constant. I also seem to recall that some of the drag parameters go up to the 4th power and higher with velocity, so that the cube of velocity is the best you can do. It will probably be worse. Bob W. On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:21:52 -0500 "Bill Bradburry" <bbradburry@bellsouth.net> wrote: When you do math, you are supposed to show your work! :>) S'plain please! B2 -----Original Message----- From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Ernest Christley Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 1:42 PM To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: rpm vs Power was : Throttle limits was Re: N.A. Renesis to turbo MONTY ROBERTS wrote: > Hp = C*V^3 > > Is that simple enough? ;-) > At work and bored, so I ran some numbers. Start with 170Hp that gives you 168mph. To get to 172mph, you'd need 182.4Hp. -- Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ Archive and UnSub: http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html -- Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ Archive and UnSub: http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html -- N93BD - Rotary Powered BD-4 - http://www.bob-white.com Now Rotary Powered Alpine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwceNc2ydN8 Cables for your rotary installation - http://roblinstores.com/