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The wing is measure as an airfoil, from wing root chord to wing tip chord, that is called exposed wing, however as airforce brat said that does not tell you the whole concept because aircraft have two wings one for each side plus they have a center of gravity, therefore you can use the squared wing span to generate an area where the wing is acting thus part of the fuselage will fall under that area that is called reference wing area.To all the experts; how is the wing area calculated?![]()
To calculate an area of an exposed wing you have to consider wing type for example Su-27 has a compound wing and your calculation you did, does not include the Lex for Su-27 and the pancake which also is an airfoil and you did not include part of the J-20 trailing wing extension and lex.
Some companies also include the horizontal stabilizers.
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