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Old March 9th 18, 02:17 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Darryl Ramm
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Default lightest DLG gliders

On Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 5:40:37 PM UTC-8, Dan Marotta wrote:
Cool, thanks!

On 3/8/2018 5:27 PM, AS wrote:
On Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 7:13:09 AM UTC-8, Dan Marotta wrote:
I don't want to hurt my brain by scaling those numbers to a real-sized
glider just to see what the wing loading is.Â* Anyone care to do the
arithmetic?

Dan,

2.61oz/sqft equals to 0.163125 pound/sqft or 0.796446 kg/m^2

Uli
'AS'


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Dan, 5J


And you can just type "convert 2.61oz/sqft to pound/sqft" into Google search... always handy for things like this.