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Jim Roselle

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Projected wing area formula?
« on: August 23, 2015, 05:22:35 PM »
I need some help from someone who's better at mathematics than me.

 Is there a formula I can use to increase the wing area of a model to a specific desired area? For example if I want to increase a models area from say 250 square inches to 350 square inches can I input both those values and come up with a multiplier for the span and chord that will give me the desired area?

 I hope this question makes sense.

Jim

Offline Brett Buck

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Re: Projected wing area formula?
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2015, 07:22:02 PM »
I need some help from someone who's better at mathematics than me.

 Is there a formula I can use to increase the wing area of a model to a specific desired area? For example if I want to increase a models area from say 250 square inches to 350 square inches can I input both those values and come up with a multiplier for the span and chord that will give me the desired area?

 I hope this question makes sense.

  Divide 250 into 350 to get the ratio of areas, then take the square root to get the scaling factor.

      350/250 = 1.4
      sqrt(1.4) = 1.18  or 18% larger linear dimensions

     Multiply all the linear dimensions (chord, span, etc) by 1.18 and your airplane will be 40% bigger in area.

    Brett

Jim Roselle

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Re: Projected wing area formula?
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2015, 07:39:38 PM »
Thank you!


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