No way does an x 10 have a 10:1 aspect ratio.

[KiteGlider]

don't worry about AR unless you're a sailplane pilot.............
http://www.betsybyars.com/guy/soaring_s ... desig.html

AR of 28.5

[kiteboarder@pacbell.net]

"wakeboy" wrote:
...aspect ratio of 12. It was 16 metres long and maximum wing (chord)width of 1.3metres...the x 10 does not look like that at all, so how did they arrive with that figure, seems either they have a strange way of measuring...

Since there's really only one way to measure Aspect Ratio, any "strange" way is incorrect. AR is span divided by AVERAGE chord (usually calculated as span squared divided by area, which is the same thing*). Maximum chord doesn't figure into it at all.

Of course this is all for FLAT AR. Projected AR is only a tiny bit more than half flat AR (the X-10 is projected about AR-5!).

*Don't bother reading this if you're Algebraically-challenged: Since average chord isn't usually given as a specification, we need to calculate it: Area is length x average width, which is span times average chord, therefore average chord is area divided by span. AR is span divided by average chord, or span/(area/span), or span x span/area, or span squared divided by area.