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Originally Posted by Bicycle Bob
The Wright Bros' experiments were more accurate than those of previous experimenters, but still quite approximate. That is one reason that the rounded leading edge came a bit later.
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Granted ... but an order of magnitude is huge!
So they tested baby wings with something like 30 mph wind. For the sake of discussion suppose 10x is the exact scale factor. Does the Reynolds equation say that full scale wings can fly at 3 mph?