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Speed,Combat,Scale,Racing => Speed Talk => Topic started by: dssit on November 30, 2006, 09:39:20 AM

Title: how to measure wing area
Post by: dssit on November 30, 2006, 09:39:20 AM

how do  you measure   both eliptical a nd stgardard wing area

Title: Re: how to measure wing area
Post by: Scott Jenkins on November 30, 2006, 02:57:31 PM

The area enclosed by an ellipse is πab, where 'a' and 'b' are the semimajor and semiminor axes and π is Archimedes's constant. In the case of a circle where a = b, the expression reduces to the familiar πa2.

Title: Re: how to measure wing area
Post by: dssit on November 30, 2006, 06:17:10 PM

scott. thanks for your reply. what I was trying to find out does thickness figure in  when your trying to come up with say 45 square inches on a standard wing.