Talk:Zeppelin Fliegende Panzerfaust
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Specifications
editReality check:
Article states that this 1200 kg gross mass aircraft was powered by 6 Schmidding SG 34 rocket motors each of 1,200 kN thrust. A quick calculation shows that equates to acceleration of 5000 m/s^2 or over 500G!
This is clearly very wrong - whoever typed in that information made a mistake.
So what's the real figure?
https://sites.google.com/site/nazisecretweaponsandscience/jets-and-rocket-propelled-aircraft
states that the SG 34 delivered 1,200 kg(f) = 11.8 kN thrust, which implies 6G acceleration (59 m/s^2) - a bit much.
However, the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachem_Ba_349#Specifications_.28Ba_349B-1.29 states that the SG 34 delivered 4.9 kN, implying 2.5G acceleration for the Fliegende Panzerfaust, which seems more reasonable.
I have therefore amended the specifications in line with this referenced claim, but I'm not sure what to do about the references given on this article's page.