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Old 30th Sep 2013, 07:28
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... which makes it a fairly useless definition if the wing is not straight tapered (which is typical for most of planes with wing mounted engines). A straight tapered wing is quite rare today, which makes the simple taper ratio a fairly unimportant number.
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