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Old 5th Nov 2009, 00:01
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Pugilistic Animus
 
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does anybody have some stats on the photo of the streamline ilike BOAC had orginally asked i.e AoA, Reynold's number, mach number

any more photo's like that?

Harrymann I did hear that the ogival shape improved low speed performanc; anyway inersting stuff

my belief however is that is was not planned I'll bet they got a serrendipitouslu good planform and then wrote equations for it afterwards---it's a shame we're not looking ahead into the hypersonic region too much wrt passenger aircraft,...the new stuff being submitted looks too unreliable to ever get through FAR 25

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