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Longer wings = Longer and broader fuselage ?

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Twiddle:
Planning on a "what-if" using the 1/48 Academy Spitfire Mk. XIVe.

The plan is to have longer wings with more ordnance :)

However, a bit of realism has crept into my idea ...

Longer wings on the Spitfire Mk. XIVe (in my uninformed opinion) will result in a longer and broader fuselage?

Sticking with the original powerplant on the Spitfire Mk. XIVe.

Also going with a revised landing gear arrangement.

Thanks for making BtS so great  :smiley:

elmayerle:
Longer wings will not necessarily result in a broader fuselage, though weight and balance with full stores might require a longer one.  I would probably go with an inward-retracting main landing gear to improve ground handling.

Kerick:
Either a longer fuselage or perhaps a larger vertical stabilizer to control yaw? Just guesstimating.

kim margosein:
Check out "Erryplanes by Pert time" on this site, around page 2.  He hjas some ideas on long wing spits.

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