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Old 08-17-2015, 06:44 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Dramatic drag comparison

The following is an anatomical drag comparison between a circular cylinder section and a NACA laminar wing section.
The two bodies are shown in true size relationship to one another.
The laminar wing section is 167-X longer than the cylinder.
They have identical drag.

(we don't need no stinkin' streamlining)
PS, the table is from 'Boundary Layer Theory,' by Hermann Schlicting,7th-Edition

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