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A Review of Aerodynamic Cleanness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

E. J. Richards
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In this paper an attempt is made to analyse the overall gains that have been obtained in aerodynamic cleanness in the past, to review the overall performance improvement that can be expected in the immediate future from increased cleanness along orthodox lines, and to survey critically certain more advanced concepts aimed at giving still lower drag coefficients and better performance characteristics.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 54 , Issue 471 , March 1950, pp. 137 - 186
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1950

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