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Flight physics don't scale down (or up) well. It's the predominant reason small airplane and quad models have enormously unscalable performance characteristics
by Alupis 8y ago
Flight physics don't scale down (or up) well. It's the predominant reason small airplane and quad models have enormously unscalable performance characteristics and abilities.
Making it bigger doesn't "just work"... same for the inverse.
- TylerE 8y agoI think the physics mostly DO scale down, it's air density and gravity that don't.
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- tonyarkles 8y agoIsn't that mostly due to the square/cube nature of scaling things? E.g. your wing area changes with the square of your scaling factor, but your mass changes with the cube of your scaling factor?