SUPERCRITICAL ADVANTAGES
William J. Kreuzer points out the important advantages of supercritical wing sections (AW&ST Oct. 20, p. 6). Alternatively, the fuel load could be increased by the amount of wing weight saved due to the thicker supercritical sections for any desired drag-divergence Mach number, hence increasing...
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