ORIGINAL: Scrubmonkey
we had on interesting front brought up while chatting out at the field about scale trainers. we were saying how even though in real life they may be good doesnt nesecarily mean that they are good rc trainers. for example take a plane with a wing area of 4'x40' which gives an area of 160ft squared.if you scale it down to 1/4 scale you end up with wing dimensions of 1'x10' and a wing area of 10 ft squared. not exactly a 1/4 of the wing area now
Because you are talking 2 dimensions for wing area, the 1/4 is actually 1/4 (squared) which is 1/16th the wing area..
That is correct for 1/4 scale...
Same happens whenincreasing size...
1 kilometer by 1 kilometer is 1 square Km..
Double each side and you have 2 x 2 = 4 sq / km...
Volume of the 1/4 scaleaircraft will 1/4 cubed... or 1/64 the original.. Ie three dimensions..