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Old 09-19-2004 | 04:00 PM
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Default RE: More important weight or wing loading

well yeh sorta- with enough static thrust - hover is instananeous thrust.
The thrust tests are only meaningful for extreme low speed .
Also drag is really low at the 3D speeds - the thick wing really is not draggy - just quite insensitive to AOA.
Thick wings don't lift more - they just lift well over a broader set of flying angles
Best wing - thiiiiin as you can get -on the little stuff - flat is good.
If you can get an honest ,tested 1.5 to 1 thrust to weight - you have a solid working 3D hover model - It may fly like sh-- otherwise but it will hoer if YOU know how to do it.
I tested all of this stuff on a thrust stand I made for electric models -
My current electrics ( rimshot), have almost 2-1 some over -some over and they accelerate vertically so fast you can't believe it.