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March 9th 18, 12:27 AM
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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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March 9th 18, 01:40 AM
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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' -- Dan, 5J
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March 9th 18, 02:17 AM
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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' -- Dan, 5J And you can just type "convert 2.61oz/sqft to pound/sqft" into Google search... always handy for things like this.
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