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Old 06-27-2003 | 10:11 PM
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rsieminski
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Default Another question on scaling up plans.

Do you scale up WS and chord, or just scale up the wing SA, and use the same AR? The methods sound the same, but end up with 2 completely different results.

eg:
WS 60
Chord 13.5
gives a SA of 810 in^2

Say you want to scale it up by 1.47%:
WS 88.2
Chord 19.8
which gives a SA of 1746.4 in^2

BUT 810 scaled up by 1.47% = only 1190.7? ? ?

Which way would be correct, to give approx the same WL?