Topic summary
Whitcomb area rule
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Area rule.
External links
- Area rule explained, Aerospace Web.
- Whitcomb Area Rule and Küchemann Carrots, Aerospace Web.
- DGLR documentArchived 2016-08-06 at the Wayback Machine
- German patent search system – look for Patent DE 932410 filed March 21, 1944.
- 2004: Overuse increases drag but still reduces boom heard on the ground NASA
- See Image 4 for an extreme example: fuselage before wing, PBS.
- The Whitcomb Area Rule: NACA Aerodynamics Research and Innovation, History Nasa.
- Whitcomb, Richard T. (January 1956). A Study of the Zero-Lift Drag-Rise Characteristics of Wing-Body Combinations Near the Speed of Sound (Technical report). National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. hdl:2060/19930092271 – via NASA Technical Reports Server.
- Contemporary reporting and explanation of area rule, Flight global archives