It pitches the plane up and negatively affects the amount of drag as you approach stall angle/speed. This is untrue, flying at such an extreme does two things Since air density is dropping, drag is also dropping and therefore max speed is increasing.Īt which altitude a plane reaches its peak speed depends on the performance of the supercharger.Ĭlimb is possible due to the power available after the power required to keep a plane afloat is consumed.Ī lot of people think the plane should be pitched up as far as possible, flying at near stall speeds to climb faster. Although the power of an engine decreases with thinner air, with the help of a supercharger (compressor) of some sort, the thrust doesn't decrease as much as air density. It should be noted that bombs contribute to drag and can lower your top speed by about 20km/h, rockets seem to contribute little if any drag.Īir gets thinner with altitude. Horizontal speed (and to some extent acceleration) is of importance to players intending to extend horizontally, that is 'run away'. 
The speed a plane reaches while flying level is simply the speed at which thrust and drag balance each other out.
How fast a plane accelerates depends on its power-to-weight ratio at low speeds and aerodynamics at higher speeds
4 Steady descending flight (Gliding flight)Ī plane will accelerate until the four basic forces in flight reach an equilibrium.
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