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From: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: F19 vs. F117
Message-ID: <1990Aug10.010851.130@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 10 Aug 90 01:08:51 GMT
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From: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
In article <1990Aug7.040849.6885@cbnews.att.com> fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes:
:From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
:While the original couldn't break Mach 1 in level flight, the -102A, with
:the area rule applied went supersonic in a slight climb.
:Whitcomb was right.  (He was the one who came up with the area rule
:concept.  It isn't his only contribution to aerodynamics, either.)

Can you say "winglet", as in the Whitcomb Winglet that is showing up
on half of the newly designed aircraft.


Lee

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