Thin Wing Research Paper

Part three
Explaining how a thicker wing can be lighter than a thin wing when both are built for the same purpose:
Firstly, the principle applying to the mass and thickness of wings applies to any aerofoil surface in any shape or form. How do we know a delta wing and a swept wing have heavier masses than a straight wing? Two important things need to come into account when measuring the thickness and weighing certain types of wings, the structural ‘Aspect Ratio’ and the ‘Thickness Ratio’ of aerofoil sections. An aspect ratio is the span of an aircrafts wings, from tip to tip all along the axis of symmetry of the aeroplane. The more the aspect ratio of a wing the greater the bending forces by the lift at the root.

The thickness of a high aspect