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A pre-WWI single seater aircraft is in no way equivalents. Extremely flimsy construction. Weight doesn’t help nearly as much as you’d think. Lift needed scales
by TylerE 3y ago
A pre-WWI single seater aircraft is in no way equivalents. Extremely flimsy construction.
Weight doesn’t help nearly as much as you’d think. Lift needed scales linearly with weight but lift scales exponentially with speed
- tlb 3y agoLift scales with the square of speed.
- TylerE 3y agoYes that’s what exponential means.
- imoverclocked 3y agoNo, “2” is a constant exponent. That makes it a square relation. An exponential relationship is when your variable is in the exponent. ie: e^ax behaves very different than x^a Lift is proportional to a*v^2 where “a” is a bunch of constants based on wing geometry, density altitude, etc. v^2 is most definitely not exponential behavior.