And the links are confusing to me.....maybe it's just me......
At 08:56 AM 4/29/2007, Skip Higginbotham wrote:
>This applies to subsonic vehicles without wings how?
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>At 09:29 AM 4/29/2007, you wrote:
>> Tom Sarda, John Burk, and List -
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>> The coke-bottle shape of supersonic aircraft results from a
>> design concept
>>referred to as "The Area Rule" which implies that as a certain size frontal
>>area approaches Mach 1 the hole it punches gets larger than the
>>actual frontal
>>area size. The coke-bottle shape allows the pressure to reduce so
>>that a plane
>>with that shape at supersonic speed actually punches a smaller hole through
>>the atmosphere than it measures physically.
>> The rule itself determines where the coke-bottle shape is located on the
>>fuselage, and how deeply the waist of the coke-bottle is formed.
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>> If anyone knows different or has more info please let us know
>> - I asked an
>>design engineer from the defunct Starship program to give me a quick'n'dirty
>>explanation without the numbers and jargon when I was working at
>>Raytheon/Beech (now Hawker/Beech).
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>> Chris Pile aka aircap
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>>http://home.worldonline.co.za/~fanjet/NC-06.jpg Beech Starship (no
>>coke-bottle)
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>>http://z.about.com/d/inventors/1/0/N/4/b_1.jpg Rockwell-Boeing B1
>>Lancer (coke-bottle)
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