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Subject: Re: "A Design Proposal That Would Make Passenger Planes Safe"
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> Only one teeny little detail wrong here.  Parasitic drag increases by
> the square of the velocity but induced drag DECREASES with an increase
> in velocity.

Egad!  How could I have messed that up?   Blame it on after-effects of
hypoxia; I had been up to 5500' without O2 the previous weekend :-)
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Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {hardy,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug