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Old 6th Aug 2007, 07:21
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vinayak
 
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thanks... i read something, http://www.adl.gatech.edu/classes/hi...Drag_Rise.html

the figure 0.7M is something that i found everywhere... is this the mach number till which the drag co-efficient remains the same?? whats the funda...

if u put the cruise speed and the sweepback angle of any airplane in the formula M'=M/cos (sweepback) u end up getting 0.7 again.

and whats this compressibility thing. confused about it.

i am kinda confused... have a Air india interview soon and this is their favourite
question and they really hit u hard with this...
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