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Area rule

The Whitcomb area rule, named after a US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (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…

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related to Germany · 31
Area rule → Aeronautics Research, Anordnung, Arrangement, December, Deutsche Akademie, Dietrich Küchemann, Displacement Bodies, Focke-Wulf, Fundamentally, German Academy, Germany, He, Henschel Hs, High-Speed Flight, Hochgeschwindigkeitsflug, In, Junkers, Küchemann, Küchemann Coke Bottle, Luftfahrtforschung
related to External links · 30
Area rule → Aeronautics, Aerospace Web, Archived, Area, Contemporary, DGLR, Flight, History Nasa, Innovation, January, Küchemann Carrots, March, NACA Aerodynamics Research, NASA Technical Reports Server, NASASee Image, National Advisory Committee, Overuse, Patent DE, PBS, Richard
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Area rule → Convair, Convair F-102, Dagger, German, Grumman, Grumman F-11 Tiger, Junkers Ju-287, Mach, Modifications, Other, The, The Convair F-102 Delta, The Grumman F-11 Tiger, US, When, Whitcomb, Whitcomb's
related to United States · 16
Area rule → Aeronautics, California Institute, Hayes, High-Speed Tunnel, Mach, NACA, NACA's Langley Research Center, National Advisory Committee, PhD, Richard, Schlieren, Technology, The, Wallace, While, Whitcomb
related to Bibliography · 9
Area rule → In Mack, Innovation, Lane, NACA Aerodynamics Research, NASA, Pamela, Retrieved August, The Whitcomb Area Rule, Wallace
related to Sears–Haack body · 8
Area rule → Ackeret Theory, Both, Glauert, Haack, However, Prandtl, Sears, So
related to Images · 7
Area rule → Concorde, Convair, F-102 Delta Dagger, F-5, Global Express, Mach, The F-106 Delta Dart
related to Supersonic area rule · 6
Area rule → For, In, Mach, NACA, Robert Jones, Theory
related to Transonic area rule · 5
Area rule → At, Furthermore, Fuselage, Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer, The

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