If you listened to Randy's comments at one point he was explaining the difference in BMWO's wing and A's soft sail. Noe I don't understand the math but he said that a soft sail had a ? Coefficient of 1.2 where the coefficient of The wing was closer to 2.0. And eluded to those numbers meaning that the wing is nearly twice as efficient. If that is indeed the case the wing played a huge part.
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