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Tinyguide: How many wings to place.
By Tim_Fragmagnet
placing more wings than necessary increases drag and lowers your top speed. Let me show you how many to place with simple math.
   
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15 Sep, 2015 @ 1:16pm
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Each wing provides 0.05 units of lift per 1 unit of speed.

so at 20m/s each wing provides 1 unit of lift

You would need 62 wings to lift your aircraft that has a mass of 60 (62 wings would add another 1.55 mass so the 2 are to compensate the weight of the wings alone.

at 40m/s each wing would provide 2 units of lift, thus only requiring 31 wings


At higher altitudes the air is less dense thus wings provide less lift, if you want to fly up where the air density is 0.5 (400 meters), just multiply all your wing counts by 2.

having more wings than necessary increases drag and thus decreases your top speed.

however right now this is basically completely irrelevant since airplanes can't fly correctly because no one knows, they just always want to pitch down even with all the forces balanced properly. So you may as well just not have wings and just have a big jet torpedo in the air.
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arognar 15 Feb, 2021 @ 12:37pm 
center mas aileron with pid
poleruj@wp.pl 10 Jan, 2016 @ 8:47am 
You dont even need wings if you go fast enough, just enough force from ailerons and tailplanes as well as the thrust acting as "lift"
Petunia 13 Dec, 2015 @ 5:43pm 
mine work fine
ciaranhappy 6 Nov, 2015 @ 8:00pm 
what if your liek me and dont even understand simpple math... is there a non math way to tell how many?
Kage 28 Oct, 2015 @ 9:26pm 
The reason is both rather simple, and profoundly stupid, as the wings stop providing lift 20m above the water and thus become dead weight which throws off the entire balance of the craft, typically noseward.
Softie 17 Sep, 2015 @ 8:55pm 
Thats great, i can now go back and correct planes, I've found the lua box makes the planes work AMAZING look up Blothorns codes, just go to the control tab and click read documentation after mousing over the LUA.

Its a bit thick to get at first but rather simple once using it. Sometimes the errors given are false and can be easily fixed by re-saving the code.

Do the Aileron's give any lift?

Also it seems that when i place wings on spinblocks, it doesn't add drag.

While its great to know how they work, i find my builds often outstretch my initial designs but so far have little issue with keeping an aircraft from sinking.