I don't believe that the wing span is the determining factor. Take a glider with a 23 meter (75ft) wing span, there is no way your are in ground effect at 12 m (37ft) of the ground. Wing span, cord length, wing loading and spead must be in the calculation (guessing).
Not being an expert, and not needing to the scinentific reasons, just nowing how to use it and/or deal with it is all I need know. :-) regards Barry Kruyssen Cairns, Australia RAA 19-3873 k...@bigpond.com http://www.users.bigpond.com/kr2/kr2.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: larry flesner To: KRnet Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:04 PM Subject: Re: KR> ground effect At 07:57 AM 5/26/05 -0500, you wrote: >Larry wrote- >>I doubt that there is an airplane flying that can land without >>experiencing ground effect. >--------------------------------------------------- >Wilga and Storch ;o) >Oscar Zuniga ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I doubt that even their wing is higher than half their wingspan above the ground. Close maybe, with little effect, but with all their highlift devices, I doubt they would notice it anyway. Larry Flesner
