Timeline for Why do two similar planes with the same engine have such different performance?
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| Aug 13 at 11:02 | vote | accept | Cloud | ||
| Aug 12 at 16:15 | comment | added | Rob McDonald | All else being equal, the larger the wing, the slower the plane. In these equations, S is the wing area. W is the gross weight. W/S is the wing loading -- since S is on the bottom of wing loading, it behaves opposite. Light wing loading (small W and big S) is for slow airplanes. High wing loading (large W and small S) is for fast airplanes. | |
| Aug 12 at 8:44 | comment | added | Cloud | So the larger the wing ratio, the slower the plane? | |
| Aug 9 at 16:04 | comment | added | Rob McDonald | @Cloud Line 2 of what? The wing areas I saw on Wikipedia were 135 for the Ikarus and 112.5 for the Eurofox. That is a ratio of 1.2. Bigger wing, lighter wing loading, slower airplane. | |
| Aug 9 at 8:25 | comment | added | Cloud | Thanks Rob. Is the wing size on line 2 a typo? Does the C42 have a smaller wingspan? | |
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| Aug 8 at 14:57 | history | answered | Rob McDonald | CC BY-SA 4.0 |