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Old 08-08-2008 | 06:04 PM
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Default RE: Question about "wing loading" spec

thank you all for such well thought out and concise answers. This makes sense to me. "Wingloading" is the amount of force put on wing, and therefore how much lift you have to have to keep flying. And lighter wingloading is going to be a little easier to fly because it wants to "float" a little more and doesn't require lift generated by forward thrust and therefore SPEED (this would explain alot of why I find flying planes like the F22 IMPOSSIBLE on simulators! i'm guessing it's got a GIANT wingloading characteristic)

This is the kind of information that goes into my "little red book" for future reference ! ( a 6"x8" pocket sized "journal" I always carry around to make notes about flying in > I've also got a separate notebook I carry for"daily nonsense"; I'm also starting a third "green" journal as a "flight notebook" to help me log my hours, crashes, achievments, and embarassments