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Downsizing and Building Wings - DeBolt Soarer

     Have you ever found a model plane design that you like, with a plan, but the thing is just too big? Maybe you thought about downsizing the plans?     I used to do it back before we had AI and all the technology that goes with it, and frankly, I just eyeballed everything in those days.     But I got to wondering how AI tools might help with this. My interests are in small field, built-up models in the 50” span range, especially gliders and e-flite. So I figured, “Hey, why not try it and see if AI Google can help?”      And since this hobby has been around a long time and this is not rocket science – although, to be honest, it is close - there is a lot of already tested and verified info about doing this. This means AI has a lot of source data to pull from, without too much worry over error. ....so let us see how it did.     What I specifically asked AI Google about was the practical limits for downsi...