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Old 14th Feb 2014, 20:57
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What is "not much"?. For a typical aerofoil drag coefficient increases quite a bit with angle of attack (assuming constant speed) at typical angles of attack flown at cruise, even your own graph shows it. By the way - heavier load hits your pocket book, someone calculated that in typical airline flying a heavy male passenger (117 kg) costs airline about 65% more in fuel than an average 73 kg passenger - again cost attributed to extra drag.
I said "at cruise speed" for a reason. And I was thinking more C172 than B737.
"At cruise speed" 'typically' means a CL around 0.3 to 0.5.
The drag curve is 'typically' designed to be fairly flat for reasonable weights - like the graph I showed.

Not everything is 'typical', of course
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