wing_area please help !

[Woodylepic]

Hi
i have some trouble whit

[Travis]

Woody!  How's it hangin?  I saw your biplane on another site just today, and I'm gonna get it tomorrow!  Well done . . .

Anyway.  The wing area.  Your forgetting: the wing isn't just a squared off area.  Most of the time, it tapers towards the ends, which will take off some of the area.

So I guess your gonna have to take a shot in the dark and guesstimate the correct number.  It'll be less than the total, but more than 3/4, at least for most of the aircraft out there.

And yes, for a biplane the total wing area will double.

[microlight]

Same thing happens with big jets. With some planes e.g. the A300 airbus, just putting the Airbus spec numbers (including those for wing span, wing area and root chord) into the .cfg file means that the plane just won't lift off the ground on takeoff. If you increase the cruise_lift_scalar figure in the [flight_tuning] section of the .cfg file from 1.0 (its default) then this will help. With the A300, I had to increase it to around 1.5 to get proper rotation at around 160-170 kts.

Good luck!

[Woodylepic]

Thank for the pipe Guys
im fine ender, im working on an new version of my levasseur pl8 whit bether texture bether navigation tool and flying caracteristique and new gauges and cockpit im working on my Nungesser and Coli website to i have find some usefull book and document on the plane and i think i can made some cool update on the plane, i hope finishing in april 2005.
here the web adresse for the plane !
http://users.quickfox.org/~woodylepic/N ... d_coli.htm

[Travis]

Hey Woody, can't you get in some licensing trouble for using the theme song from Voyager?

[Woodylepic]

no all my stuff is freeware and i have modified the song my self whit a midi editor.