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He like me, is a total phoney, in terms of aerospace engineering, and putting payloads into orbit as well.
Speaker Bio:
Doug McLean is a retired Boeing Technical Fellow. .... He received a B.A. in physics from the University of California at Riverside in 1965 and a Ph.D. in Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences from Princeton University in 1970. He is the author of Understanding Aerodynamics - Arguing from the Real Physics (Wiley, 2012)
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B.A., Ph.D., published author? He might object to your calling him a 'total phoney'. Not to say there aren't aerodynamic concepts that never found favor in the mainstream.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/technolog...sa-wing-design
The Prandtl-D wing lay dormant from the 1930s to today. Nothing more complicated that increased wingspan and wash-out at the tips.