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dean barry
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The megaladon being the extinct super fish, the 100 ft long "shark".
I started with the orca which has a top speed of 30 mph ( 13.411 m/s ) and gave it the same Cd ( drag coefficient ) as a family car, the power then working out at approx 788 kW / 1,056 hp.
The length of an orca is 30 feet, so i figured the Cd for the megaladon at 10.9 times that of the orca, but i need to guess the power of the megaladon, i have used the cube of the length ratio of the two for the calculation and have rated the megaladon at 29.172 MW / 39,120 hp
This led to a top speed of 19.4 m/s ( 43.4 mph )
Comments please.
I started with the orca which has a top speed of 30 mph ( 13.411 m/s ) and gave it the same Cd ( drag coefficient ) as a family car, the power then working out at approx 788 kW / 1,056 hp.
The length of an orca is 30 feet, so i figured the Cd for the megaladon at 10.9 times that of the orca, but i need to guess the power of the megaladon, i have used the cube of the length ratio of the two for the calculation and have rated the megaladon at 29.172 MW / 39,120 hp
This led to a top speed of 19.4 m/s ( 43.4 mph )
Comments please.