Rate of Climb Misconception | Altitude AND Speed!

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0:00 - Introduction
0:21 - Method Exploration
2:05 - Missing Link!
4:42 - Thanks for watching!

Rate of climb misconception and missing link explained and demonstrated!

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[silverfortytwo]

I generally prefer to climb a little faster than is efficient so I'm less likely to get jumped slow

[hansm_]

Yesss graph give me more graphs I love it

[arternativeyt]

no dont tell them, i love when someone think they had advantage over me just because they were slightly higher than me, and when i put my plane straight zoom climb into them, they are hopeless because they had no speed even to react

[sillyrabbit]

Makes me wanna open matlab and find the most efficient walking speed/calorie burn to get to class

[theofthebeast]

I just happen to have finished teaching the relationship between work, mechanical energy and generated heat to my physics students, so I'm very familiar with those concepts but I never considered this about optimal climb speeds. Super informative, thanks a lot!

[astrotrek]

Adam I just wanna say you're combing physics with my favorite video game is really keeping me interested in math lol. Physics is more fun when it's cool airplanes involved. Keep it up man, great work.

[victory]

You showed a very good point and explained it well. Although I disagree with your wording - the 250 IAS P-47 still *climbs* better than the 300 IAS P-47 (as shown by the altitude against time graph), but the 300 IAS P-47 has more *energy* coming out of its climb. The 300 IAS P-47 climbs worse than the 250 IAS P-47 but has a little more energy than it (as climb is strictly speaking about altitude, not energy). But I will be sure to remember to climb a little faster.

[rudolphantler]

Adam. You usually have the slogan of "Be useful!" or something like that. Air RB.
1- Can you explain what type of planes and/or what behaviours do you deem useful?
2- What plane classes fall into which category of usefullness or the opposite? Also detailing which get airspawns, which don't.
3- How can you make otherwise non-usefull planes useful? What requirements should the said plane be adept at?
4- How to make otherwise useful planes even more useful? Perhaps low altitude fighters bombing ground targets before dogfighting?
5- What not to do so one doesn't make an otherwise useful plane non-useful?
6- What should an ideal squad composition be like or comprised of?
7- What's your opinion on slightly heavier twin engine planes which could technically take down foes?

[gpapazac]

Adam we re going in a lockdown 2 days from know ( i live in Greece). Please provide more pvp gameplay asap ( a stream will also suffice) . Thanks in advance ;)

[ZeVulj]

adam ur video, granted, and my interest in planes and war thunder made me take the aeronautical engineering curriculum at my uni, this will be interesting for my classes keep it up

[nairb-dsvn]

I had your video when I played today. Both fighters and bombers. I found concentrating on keeping the speed up rather than attitude worked. Not by much; but worked. Those fast climbing fighters of the opposition weren’t quite so high. Thanks very much.

[dannycross]

Every aircraft has a best rate of climb (Vy) and best angle of climb (Vx) which is calculated based on avaliable horsepower and total weight. Best rate gives you best time to altitude while best angle gives best altitude over given horizontal distance. All u need to do is point the nose to hit that speed IAS right from take off

[NoahR-zd]

why do i watch these when i have no clue what is being talked about lol

[ferrarisuper]

Very nice, short video Adam! One thing i did not understand: while the altitude increases the plane needs to accelerate because of lower air density, but with lower drag the amount of energy required to go at higher TAS at higher altitude is lower.

[isabuckles]

I'm reminded a lot of Eugene M. Cliff's paper on energy state models.

[twister]

I got a video Idea. Bullets should fly Further at high altitude due to reduced drag. Could be an intresting short video.

[yubisnake]

I DID learn something. I've been climbing at a 265kph IAS. I'll have to start trying 300. Ky main issue is coming up against aircraft who I'm holding elevation advantage over, but are able to snap nose up for a good burst (i.e. yak3), and who seem to retain their energy even after the drastic nose up climb to engage me

[OneMoreDesu]

Great video; squeezing performance out of aircraft can be very fulfilling

[Ravenwood]

wow your channel is very nice, love the merch aswell

[FRDDPFAL]

Make a video Reviewing the F8F-1(B), and dont stop posting videos, i enjoy to much your work.✌️