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The Minimum Induced Drag of Aerofoils (1923)

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or lift of any inclination, horizontal and vertical elements being able, by combination, to produce lift in any direction., \ ; , There remains only the question whether the two parts of the drag are also equal if the elements are situated one behind the other—that is to say, in different… … linear longitudinal vortices in the inverse direction. The reader observes that the transverse vortices (2) and (3) neutralize each other; the longitudinal linear vortices, however, have the same sign, and all four vortiees fonn a pair of vortices running from infinity to infinity. The drag,…

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