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 @hypervious8878 By the minute might be more useful for some purposes, but fuel flow gauges have historically been calibrated per hour and everybody is used to working that way.
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@twoknife Afterburners provide more thrust with increasing speed. Turbojets provide more power with increasing speed. So in general, I think it would not be unexpected that total fuel flow though the engine increases with speed.
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Yes. Procurement critics are usually against "Gold Plating", except when it can be applied to an airplane they want.
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@LRRPFco52 There you go, looking behind the curtain!
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@williamhudson4938 High speed does force more air into the engine. What the compressor face doesn't like to see is supersonic flow. The purpose of variable ramps and spikes is to control the position of the normal shock wave so that it remains within the inlet but forward of the compressor face. Air downstream of the shock is subsonic and therefore at higher static pressure and density. This is why subsonic planes don't need these devices.
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@danbell3827 I wouldn't say the XL had a "better wing design", I would say it had a different wing design, which was better for the strike role. It was not part of the original design because it was not the best wing for sustained high G maneuvering.
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Fake history. The XL cranked wing would have made for a better bomber, not a better fighter.
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