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22nd February 2005 | 21:07

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Alex Whittingham

Joined: May 1999

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From: Bristol, England

Ah, I was afraid you meant that. The variation of CD with mach number has more to do with the rapid increase of drag at MCRIT, as described by Old Smokey above, than the general shape of the drag curve.