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October 11th 05, 03:58 AM
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Wallace Berry wrote:
What makes this structure lighter or cheaper or easier to build than conventional wings? Who ever said the generation of gliders would even begin to consider the idea of cheaper??? That has not been the recent trend. If it is lighter, it appears that the concept is to spread the wing load over a much wider area [more of the chord], so that the stresses do not need to concentrate on a single heavy spar. The wing skin can possibly be made thinner/lighter this way too since it does not have to transmit the load as far. Chris 
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