GATE AE · 2026 · AE
Question 31: Airplane Performance
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Question 31
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An aircraft starts gliding in power-off condition at an altitude of 4 km. Given that the maximum lift to drag ratio of the aircraft is 15, the maximum glide range that the aircraft can cover, measured along the ground, is ________ km (rounded off to the nearest integer).
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GATE AE 2026 · Paper 1
Aerospace Engineering · Original paper archive
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- Aerospace Engineering
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- Numerical answer (NAT)
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- 1 mark
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