January 25th, 2008, 18:32
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| Old Skool
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Memphis, TN
Posts: 2,671
|  Re: Cruise altitude
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Originally Posted by staplegun  From the same web-site, page 9:1. Endurance will increase with altitude as long as temperature decreases with altitude. Maximum endurance will therefore occur at the tropopause.
Kevin | Interesting. On page 5 he says: As you can see in the graphs to the left there should be no change in the maximum endurance of the aircraft with altitude.
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