Richard Whitcomb significantly impacted modern airplane design through inventions like winglets, the supercritical airfoil, and the transonic area rule. Whitcomb's transonic area rule, though possibly ...
In the mid-to-late 40s, in the thick of WWIII, engineers designing fighters were discovering that something unusual would happen when planes reached transonic and supersonic levels of speed. Shock ...
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