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Old 20th September 2009 | 12:02
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Most people are familiar with the 9*square root formula from D. P.Davies excellent "Handling the big jets", however, if you want to read the original NASA research paper, gathering together and fully explaining the research from both NASA and the Royal Aircraft Establishment, it's here:

PHENOMENA OF PNEUMATIC TIRE HYDROPLANING (1963)
By Walter B. Horne and Robert C. Dreher

You can skip the maths, but the rest is an excellent easy to understand description of the entire event, under each of the controlling conditions.

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