.. a lighter plane will sink slower...
Well, a lighter plane will fly slower. Sink speed is the product of
flight speed * L/D, so unless the L/D goes up as fast as the the
forward speed, a lighter plane will indeed sink slower.
But the L/D does go up some with wing loading because of Reynolds
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On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:18:44
tony estep wrote:
A slower-flying plane will make smaller circles for a given sink rate;
a typical 8-oz/sq ft plane will fly in roughly 42 foot circles for a
sink rate of 2 ft/sec, while the same plane at 10-oz/sq ft would need
57 feet of diameter. So if
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