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Why do all fighter jets and aerobatic airplanes have flat wings?

18 votes

Why do turbine engines work?

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What shape has the highest drag coefficient?

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Why is paper (or any tailless) airplane pitch stable?

11 votes

How does a helicoper auto-rotate? The force of the air pushing on all blades would equal out. Wouldn't it?

6 votes

The demise of the Tacoma Narrows bridge was casused by aeroelastic flutter. But isn't that just a special case of resonance?

6 votes
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Why friction increase subsonic speed through pipe?

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Would a projectile (arrow, bullet) with holes drilled in its length be faster and have greater range?

4 votes
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Lift and drag coefficients on other planets

3 votes
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Can a glider maintain a constant forward velocity component?

3 votes
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In aircraft design why are light materials preferred to heavy ones?

3 votes
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Why is an airplane propeller so different from a boat propeller in shape?

3 votes
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Effect of paint on drag force

3 votes

How is determined the shape of the wings of an airplane?

3 votes
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How is the Falcon 9 aerodynamically stable while ascending?

3 votes

Angle of attack and lift: is there a model?

3 votes

(Lifting of aircraft wings) Source of centripetal force on a curved streamline?

3 votes
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Why high Reynolds number "implies" high airspeed?

2 votes

Is inertia real reason for flow separation?

2 votes

Do airplanes circulate the air sideways in flight?

2 votes
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Why car has sharp separation edges at the back?

2 votes
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Has car round back any aero advantages?

2 votes
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Why are golf balls the only (famous) object with dimples?

2 votes
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running on the outside of a moving train

2 votes

Can a fan cool objects better in a less dense atmosphere?

2 votes

I'm confused about the aerodynamics of a gas turbine compressor blade of a jet engine?

2 votes
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Venturi effect and velocity of the liquid (or air)

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Why is the polar diagram of an airplane depended on weight?

2 votes
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Why Jet fighters don't heat up like spacecrafts?

2 votes

Is it possible that viscous flow has a higher lift to drag ratio than inviscid flow?

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