When span goes up, a higher wingloading tends to be tolerable. Sometimes
it's even preferable. I made a 16' span plane that had a ridiculously low
wingloading. It had great light lift performance. But it had no legs. Same
as an HLG.
The wingloading of a big commercial jet is around 75POUNDS per ft
I want to start that ball rolling SE Modeler had an article on this
topic, scale effects basically, and the only thing that I can remember
from it was the term cubic wing loading... The gist of it was that it's
not a straight line effect, but more of an exponential curve - 7oz/ ft
may be good f
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From: James V Bacus
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Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004
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Subject: Re: [RCSE] my favorite
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At 05:31 AM 11/30/2004, John Derstine wrote:
Is it that such topics generate great interest because they
are low
The fact that so many have responded proves a worthy topic. It's refreshing to
read people's experiences during the birth of their tenure with model
sailplanes. Funny how it puts everyone in the same boat, which is rare on this
particular exchange...
Quoting John Derstine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
At 05:31 AM 11/30/2004, John Derstine wrote:
Is it
that such topics generate great interest because they are low risk
(flaming)? Require no thought? or just perhaps everything worth being
discussed has been covered?
For me it brings back memories, and I learn a little bit more about the
RCSE memb
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