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Old 09-24-2019, 05:51 PM   #3172 (permalink)
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They're flying in loose formation. Agreed that interference drag is as/more important than skin friction, but if the gap is treated as a converging/diverging duct it could be minimal.

Given the lesser frontal area, the competing theories deserve testing.
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