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Old August 22nd 14, 07:08 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Andrew Ouellet
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Default Square root wing loading conversion method

In many of Johnson's flight test reports, he refers to something like 'the square root of the wing loading' method to unify glide polars taken from different gliders at different wing loadings down to a common wing loading in order to be effectively compared. Can someone explain what this is and how to do this?

I have a strong engineering background so no need to mince words.

Thanks!