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Originally Posted by JesseK
... will spend over 75% of their climb time in the acceleration phase,
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That doesn't pass the sanity check. If it takes 3-4 seconds to get to 33 inches per second, that's an acceleration of about 10 inches per second^2, or .03 g's. It doesn't start with a load of 0 g's, it starts with 1g plus acceleration, so that's about 3% reduction in available power using your numbers.