"Horizontally Projected Wingspan" and Di/polyhedral angles?

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"Horizontally Projected Wingspan" and Di/polyhedral angles?

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Does "horizontally projected" wingspan mean just the distance from tip to tip or does it also include the length of each panel added up?

I'm thinking of doing a polyhedral for my wing, and I wasn't sure if the measured wingspan would just be the straight line distance from one tip to the other, or if it would be the distance along the wing (so the length of each panel added up). Since I'm building a flat panel first and then breaking the wood and folding it into a dihedral, I wasn't sure if that panel could be longer than 40 cm and then the polyhedral could make the tip to tip distance 40 cm.

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Re: "Horizontally Projected Wingspan" and Di/polyhedral angles?

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TSOlympian wrote:Does "horizontally projected" wingspan mean just the distance from tip to tip or does it also include the length of each panel added up?

I'm thinking of doing a polyhedral for my wing, and I wasn't sure if the measured wingspan would just be the straight line distance from one tip to the other, or if it would be the distance along the wing (so the length of each panel added up). Since I'm building a flat panel first and then breaking the wood and folding it into a dihedral, I wasn't sure if that panel could be longer than 40 cm and then the polyhedral could make the tip to tip distance 40 cm.

Thanks!
Horizontally projected is just tip to tip. It should be a straight measurement. So not the length of each panel, if it were a polyhedral wing.
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