A few comments on CL (now, if I could write in sub- and super-scripts, wouldn't that be wonderful ..) ...
John,
Was it you I emailed about a year ago (or whenever) about getting TeX support for the Forum to make this alot easier?
I used to write my more mathematically inclined posts in TeX script, and various posters were/are conversant with it...
It should be possible for the administrators of the BB to get vBulletin to recognise [TEX] tags and voila.
My $0.02.
Wizo
barit- Absolutely not, that's why I resisted the idea that area should be part of the equation as twice the area does not mean twice the lift.
Twice the area
does mean twice the lift.
It
does not mean twice the lift coefficient.
The point of C_L is exactly as you suggest - to compare different objects ability to produce lift.