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Engine Cowling with Special Reference to the Air-Cooled Engine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Extract

In the earliest stages of the development of the aeroplane the speed range obtainable was small, flight occurred only at fairly high lift coefficients, and induced drag was the predominant component of total resistance, hence successful flight depended on the achievement rather of minimum weight, minimum wing loading and maximum engine power than on the achievement of minimum possible parasite resistance.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1934

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