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  • 31Aspect ratio (wing) — In aerodynamics, the aspect ratio of a wing is defined as the square of the wing span divided by the wing area.:AR = {b^2 over S}where: b is the wing span, and: S is the wing area.Informally, a high aspect ratio indicates long, narrow wings,… …

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  • 32Adolf Busemann — Adolph Busemann (20 April 1901 3 November 1986) was a German aerospace engineer and influential early pioneer in aerodynamics, specialising in supersonic airflows. He introduced the concept of swept wings, and after immigrating to the United… …

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  • 33Anti-shock body — Anti shock bodies or Küchemann carrots are pods placed at the trailing edge of a subsonic aircraft s wings in order to reduce wave drag, thus improving fuel economy, as the aircraft enters the transonic flight regime (Mach 0.8–1.2). Most jet… …

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  • 34MANGLER — GERMANY (see also List of Individuals) 26.9.1910 Sangerhausen/D 8.2.1980 Celle/D Kurt Werner Mangler graduated as a physicist from University of Halle/Saale in 1933 and in 1934 there submitted a PhD Thesis in mathematics. He stayed from 1936 to… …

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  • 35Airbus A350 — infobox Aircraft subtemplate= Infobox Airbus airliners name = Airbus A350 type = Wide body jet airliner manufacturer = Airbus caption = Airbus A350 XWB concept first flight = 2011 (scheduled) introduction = 2013 (scheduled) status = Under… …

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  • 36Mach number — (mathrm{Ma} or M) (generally pronEng|ˈmɑːk, sometimes IPA|/ˈmɑːx/ or IPA|/ˈmæk/) is the speed of an object moving through air, or any fluid substance, divided by the speed of sound as it is in that substance. It is commonly used to represent an… …

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  • 37Delta wing — HAL Tejas has a tailless delta wing configuration …

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  • 38National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics — NACA redirects here. For other uses, see NACA (disambiguation). National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA The official seal of NACA, depicting the Wright brothers first flight at Kitty Hawk …

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  • 39Computational fluid dynamics — Computational physics Numerical analysis  …

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  • 40Antony Jameson — (born 1934) is an aeronautical engineer known for his pioneering work in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics.Early lifeBorn in Gillingham, Kent, UK he spent much of his early childhood in India where his father was stationed as a British… …

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