Old 10-09-2013, 11:12 PM
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Knotcher
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Its not a never ending cycle. As you pitch up the you will get increased induced drag but the airplane will eventually reach a steady state condition where the drag will equal the thrust. Remember as you slow down you shed a lot of parasitic drag also, but gain only a small amount of induced drag.

This all assumes you are on the front side of the power curve though. On the backside, it takes more power to go slower because of the large amount of induced drag due to lift.
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