Optimum spanloads incorporating wing structural weight

1st AIAA, Aircraft, Technology Integration, and Operations Forum

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Iglesias, Sergio ^a   Mason, William H ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

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