Bret Ludwig wrote:

In a production design, it will. It will add build labor, weight, and
manufacturing time but it will cut hangarage costs dramatically. Figure
a given amount of floor space can hold three times the airplanes,
minimum, if the wings fold.

Not in T-hangars, and they're the most common ones around here. I've seen
someone get two Champs in a single T-hangar by removing the wings of one of
them, but it wouldn't work with a plane the size of a 172.

It will also make interchangeable wings-a long set and a short
set-much more feasible.

I don't see how. You can pull a wing off a Cessna 152, 172, etc. by removing
three bolts. With a Maule, it's four. Can't get much simpler than that. Of
course, you still need to mess around with the aileron cables and flaps
linkages, but you'd have to do that with a folding design too.

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