Pomilio, Ottorino · New York, McGraw-Hill · leaf 26
c is greatly decreased. The loss is c~ c expressed by -^v,— = - that is, by the inverse of the ratioS /\ c s THE WINGS 11 So it is seen that by increasing the ratio -> the spanchord average value of the coeffi-cient of Lift is increased, andit is therefore advantageousto build wings of large… … Fig. 12. machines, this value variesfrom 5 to 12, and even more.In biplanes, triplanes andmultiplanes, another very im-portant problem is presented;that of the mutual interference of each plane upon theothers. In view of the close arrange-ment of the surfaces necessitated bystructural…
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