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While flying a aircraft ,how many %of it s total weight comes on its wings?

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if it is 100% wether we can lift a aircraft (espcialy cargo flights when it is fully loaded) by a crane by sling on the wings

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  1. The horizontal stabilizer usually adds a down load of about 10% to the aircraft weight.  When determining the load on the wing the lift contribution provided by the fuselage is frequently ignored; so the wing is designed to carry about 110% of the aircraft weight.


  2. 100% of the weight of an aircraft is borne by the wings.

    If you want to get technical, its actually slightly above 100% because the additional weight of the tail's downforce must also be overcome by the wings.

  3. unless you own a Piaggio 180 Avanti 100%, the wings support the full weight of the airplane maybe minus 1%, but yeah you get my point

  4. It depends on any other structure (apart from the mainplanes) which is designed to carry the weight of the aircraft. Normally the wings carry nearly all the weight with the horizontal or 'V' tail structure carrying a negligible share.

  5. The wings provide all the lift for an airplane, so therefore ALL the weight (100%) rests on the wings.

    There are some oddball "lifting body" and "blended wing" designs in which a portion of the lift is provided by the main fuselage, but they are extremely rare.

  6. all of it.

  7. Give me all the thumbs downs you want folks, but I'm looking at this differently, as per how the question was asked.

    They might even be asking how much weight the wings are of the total mass. I don't can know from the phrasing that are being used.

    But, since the wings are the lift surfaces, then I can only see counting  the fuselage weight when speaking structures. I have no idea how much an average fuselage or wing weighs to make any guess at percentage.

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