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Wing loading + WCL

Wing loading says how hard it has to fly. Wing cube loading says how it will feel — it is scale-invariant, so it compares a 400 mm foamie with a 2 m warbird honestly.

Area from span × chord

Numbers

wing loading
also
wing cube loading
aspect-free stall speed (CLmax below)
WCLflies like

Stall speed inputs

Stall speed is √(2W / ρ·S·CLmax) — wing only. It ignores fuselage lift, prop wash over the inner panel and any Reynolds penalty, so on a small model it reads optimistic; treat it as the floor, not the number. CLmax 1.1 is a fair flat-bottom/semi-symmetric section at RC Reynolds; use ~0.9 symmetric, ~1.3 well-cambered. Section CLmax at your actual Re is in Foil DXF; real planform area for a cranked or tapered wing comes out of Plane Spec rather than span × chord.