Area rule
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area-rule-224-2227809
title:
Area rule
text:
The Whitcomb area rule, named after NACA engineer Richard Whitcomb and also called the transonic area rule, is a design procedure used to reduce an aircraft's drag at transonic speeds which occur between about Mach 0.75 and 1.2. For supersonic speeds a different procedure called the supersonic area rule, developed by NACA aerodynamicist Robert Jones, is used. Transonic is one of the most important speed ranges for commercial and military fixed-wing aircraft today, with transonic acceleration an
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Aerodynamic concept
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_rule
date created:
2001-12-22T01:29:32Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T16:22:35Z
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