Sid, What formulas or table did you use for calculating the change in flight characteristics for a rectangular planform wing? The 20% figures you state seem a little extreme. Also, I think the change would add only about 7 Sq ft to the wing area. Rich Hartwig Waunakee WI
>about 20 percent to the wing area all out at the tips. >The initial rate of climb would go up about 20 percent; the top speed would >decrease about 20 percent; the roll rate would slow by about 20 percent. >The hersey bar KR-2 would tend to get into an unrecoverable flat spin during >a departure stall due to blanking the rudder. In short you would have >created a two-place Cherokee 140 with a high time engine. >Sid Wood
