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However, because wings come in various shapes the aspect ration is the wing span divided by the mean wing chord. The formula for this is: The aerodynamic aspect ratio is measured between the cores of the wingtip vortices that occur at about 80% of the geometric wingspan when the wing is outside ground effect. The aerodynamic aspect ratio of a wing has a strong inverse effect on lift induced drag. | ||
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