Timeline for How high can propeller airplanes fly?
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| Apr 22, 2021 at 5:03 | history | edited | Peter Kämpf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 6, 2020 at 6:43 | comment | added | Peter Kämpf | @quietflyer. Wouldn't that make the question meaningless? When it's about propeller aircraft, the prop should do the lifting. | |
| Jun 5, 2020 at 22:42 | comment | added | quiet flyer | Is the question meant to exclude situations where meteorological "lift" such as mountain wave assists the aircraft in climbing to high altitude? | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:59 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 15, 2016 at 15:37 | comment | added | UIDAlexD | @TannerSwett Sorry for replying to such an old post, but I wanted to say that Orbital Mechanics is bizarrely counter-intuitive. In order to reach a high, slow-speed orbit you need to accelerate to put energy into your orbit. Inversely, to move from a high-altitude low-speed orbit to a high-speed low-altitude one, you have to decelerate and remove energy from your orbit. Slowing down is speeding up and speeding up is slowing down. Crazy, right? | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 7:21 | comment | added | Peter Kämpf | @TannerSwett What I meant is that you need to start with a higher velocity in order to reach the higher orbit. I admit that was not expressed clearly. I hope my edit improved the answer. | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 7:20 | history | edited | Peter Kämpf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 18, 2016 at 4:36 | comment | added | Sophie Swett | "The higher the orbit becomes, the faster the aircraft needs to go." – Other way around, isn't it? For circular orbits, the orbital velocity is slower the higher up you go. | |
| Oct 23, 2015 at 7:52 | history | edited | Peter Kämpf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 23, 2015 at 7:33 | history | edited | Peter Kämpf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 23, 2015 at 7:26 | comment | added | Peter Kämpf | @user2813274: You are right, I should be more explicit. | |
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| Jul 13, 2014 at 7:51 | history | edited | Peter Kämpf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 12, 2014 at 12:55 | history | answered | Peter Kämpf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |