While proofreading wes-2025-77, we found a change to the revised submitted paper, and we would like to request additional changes.

p.7 col 2, line 37, has missing equation numbers

Fig. 11 would benefit from an addition to the Figure caption (like in Fig.13). Adding  “, for $\alpha = 12.5\unit{\degree}$.” would aid the reader.

Fig. 10, 11, 12, and 13 correctly display the Wind Tunnel & CFD data, but do not correctly display the VSM results.
We found a bug in the code that slightly changes the results. For clarity, we added a comparison figure to the appendix of this email.
We have also appended the new figures.

The above implementation requires a single slight adjustment of the discussion on the results:
p. 12, col 2 line 26: incorrect, please change from:
"Both VSM and CFD predictions with and without struts agree well but show the expected change in drag slope when entering the stall regime. The change of slope is not reproduced by the VSM predictions to the same extent, attributed to inherent limitations of lifting-line-based methods 30 in this regime (Phillips and Snyder, 2000), e.g. its inviscid nature."
To: "Both VSM and CFD predictions with and without struts agree well but do not show the same expected change in drag slope when entering the stall regime. The change of slope is not reproduced by the VSM predictions to the same extent, attributed to inherent limitations of lifting-line-based methods 30 in this regime (Phillips and Snyder, 2000), e.g. its inviscid nature."

Best,

Jelle on behalf of the authors
