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Old 20th Sep 2004, 19:38
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hawk37
 
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Sorry, I worded that backwards. I should have said that as an aircraft speeds up, the coefficient of drag decreases. Yet a sphere, or racecar for another example, will not change their Coefficient of drag as speed changes.
However, I can see this is not an apples to apples comparison, since an aircraft in level flight will change it’s profile to the air (as Beagle pointed out via a Coefficient of lift change), while a sphere, or racecar won’t.

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