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Old 04-16-2021, 10:17 AM   #19 (permalink)
Piotrsko
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Not so much. A radial can be inside a NACA cowl and the added thrust of the cowl negates much of the cooling drag. The liquid cooled engines were smaller cross section thus lower drag but the cooling systems were draggy as all heck.
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