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Old 09-26-2017, 07:54 PM
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At 1.5x you have 2.25x the wing area, so wing loading in this case is similar,slightly higher for the large version, however larger aircraft tend to fly slower than a direct scaling would indicate, a more useful relative comparison is the cubic wing loading, or weight in ounces divided by the wing area in sq feet raised to the 1.5 power. It allows a more direct comparison of how different size models will fly, in this case the small model is 8.6, large model is 6.8, my hypersonic delta wing is 6.54, so it should be
closer to the slower gliding plane.

In the end they are a flat plate wing sport flyer that looks cool and will never be a competition duration glider but that's not what I wanted.
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