Sabreliner 65

Less than five years after NASA's Richard Whitcomb won the National Aeronautic Association's Wright Brothers Trophy for inventing the super-critical wing, the Rockwell Sabreliner 65, the first civil jet incorporating just such an airfoil, went into production. The Sabre 65's airfoil, designed by a...

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