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The Monarch Butterfly has a very low 0.168 kg/m 2 wing loading The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 has a high 837 kg/m 2 maximum wing loading. In aerodynamics, wing loading is the total weight of an aircraft or flying animal divided by the area of its wing.
The vortex lattice method is built on the theory of ideal flow, also known as Potential flow.Ideal flow is a simplification of the real flow experienced in nature, however for many engineering applications this simplified representation has all of the properties that are important from the engineering point of view.
A ray of light proceeding from point 1 arrives at point 2 after suffering any number of refractions, reflections, &c. At point 1 let any two perpendicular planes a 1 , b 1 be taken in the direction of the ray; and let the vibrations of the ray be divided into two parts, one in each of these planes.
In the definition of load factor, the lift is not simply that one generated by the aircraft's wing, instead it is the vector sum of the lift generated by the wing, the fuselage and the tailplane, [2]: 395 or in other words it is the component perpendicular to the airflow of the sum of all aerodynamic forces acting on the aircraft.
Both aircraft have a similar wing area, again reflecting the Mustang's superior aerodynamics in spite of much larger size. [1] In another comparison with the Camel, a very large but streamlined aircraft such as the Lockheed Constellation has a considerably smaller zero-lift drag coefficient (0.0211 vs. 0.0378) in spite of having a much larger ...
C D varies with α 2; C L and C D vary with Reynolds number and Mach number; q, the dynamic pressure, is equal to 1/2 ρv 2, where ρ is atmospheric density, modeled for Earth as a function of altitude in the International Standard Atmosphere (using an assumed temperature distribution, hydrostatic pressure variation, and the ideal gas law); and
Then reflect P′ to its image P′′ on the other side of line L 2. If lines L 1 and L 2 make an angle θ with one another, then points P and P′′ will make an angle 2θ around point O, the intersection of L 1 and L 2. I.e., angle ∠ POP′′ will measure 2θ. A pair of rotations about the same point O will be equivalent to another ...
The aerodynamic force on a powered airplane is commonly represented by three vectors: thrust, lift and drag. [ 3 ] : 151 [ 1 ] : § 14.2 The other force acting on an aircraft during flight is its weight , which is a body force and not an aerodynamic force.