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I would think that a glide ratio of 13:1 would be somewhat "optimistic" for a WW1 crate.
I had a brief discussion with Tom Glaeser on this very subject last Armistice Day. *Tom flies a 7/8ths scale Nieuport 11 with the Kansas City Dawn Patrol.
He said that if you lose power in one of those planes, you don't glide very far. *"Just look straight down ahead of you, because that's where you're going to land.", he said. *Granted, the KC Dawn Patrol seldom flies much higher than a thousand meters altitude, but I don't think it would make much difference. *
The drag from all of the struts and wires is tremendous. *He said that if you were flying along with full power, then chopped throttle that it felt like someone in an automobile putting the brakes on hard. *He said it would really push him into the straps.
That much drag surely can't help the glide ratio at all.
Best regards,
Dean
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