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Richard Whitcomb at NACA developed the area rule to address a problem facing aircraft designers in the late 1940s - a sharp increase in drag at transonic speeds was preventing designs from achieving supersonic flight. Whitcomb tested various wing and fuselage combinations in wind tunnels and discovered that shock waves forming at transonic speeds were larger than expected and causing significant drag. The area rule revolutionized aircraft design by addressing how to minimize these shock waves and reduce tra

Author

Muthyala Akhil

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