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Old 4th October 2010 | 13:16
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Originally Posted by bearfoil
Please do check your math.
Yes, thanks for the heads-up.

Circumference is 2 x Pi x R, and I want twice around (2 x 2 x Pi x R) to be greater than 340. I get R (now :-) ) to be about 27 m, a little more than the 7.5m I originally wrote. I have no idea how that happened.

Even so, 27 m is less than the semi-wing span of A330/40 or Boeing 747 / 777 aircraft, which is also attained by some recent high-aspect-ratio smaller airplanes such as those used for HALE-type research projects, none of which you would want to try to snap-roll.

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