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Wing Area

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yankeeclipper

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After a bit of research and playing around with various tools, I find myself just a little confused about wing area. Assuming the following:

-1150 lbs TOW
-.75 Oswald
-23012 airfoil (12% thickness)

it looks to me and FoilSim like a measly 105 ft sq at 2.5 degrees angle of attack are plenty for reasonably short take-off's and even for a well-flapped 50mph landing. But most light aircraft matching the above description end up being invariably close to 130 sq ft. Clearly I'm missing some important factors. Any thoughts on what they might be?
 
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