Airfoil Drag Jet 
Vintage Aviation News
APRIL 1, 2025
From the first days of flying to the evolution of supersonic jets, historic aircraft offer a road map for comprehending the ideas guiding aeronautical engineering. Particularly in battle aerodynamics, drag reduction, and structural durability, early aircraft teach engineers today important insights.
Pilot Institute
MARCH 28, 2025
When air flows over the aircraft wing, the shape of the airfoil creates low pressure above the wing and relatively higher pressure below the wing. This horizontal component of lift is called Induced Drag. Its called induced drag since it only exists as a consequence of lift. Increased Drag Moving air around is hard work!
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Vintage Aviation News
APRIL 11, 2025
They flew a total of 313 missions, collecting invaluable data on pitch stability, lift, drag, and buffeting in transonic and supersonic flight. The jet- and rocket-powered aircraft exceeded expectations, performing better than predicted in high-speed wind tunnel testsparticularly in drag performance above Mach 0.85.
Plane and Pilot
APRIL 14, 2025
In the late 1940s, surplus unlimited class World War II fighters, and for a while military jets, soon pushed 400 mph air race speeds out of reach. The NXT was designed using computer-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD), NASA-derived airfoils, and was tested in the Lockheed wind tunnel to refine the aerodynamics.
Pilot Institute
MARCH 13, 2025
Airfoils use this principle, with faster airflow over the top creating lower pressure. Bernoullis principle also applies to how carburetors and jet engine inlets work. Jet Engine Inlets Jet engine inlets also rely on Bernoullis principle, although they use it differently than carburetors.
Vintage Aviation News
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Now, this might sound familiar, as this very idea that was born in Italy was an inspiration for modern-day jet propulsion. The unique cylindrical design of the fuselage allowed for a streamlined profile and reduced drag, increasing the overall efficiency. The elliptical wings passed through this duct with the engine nacelle inside it.
Fear of Landing
MARCH 22, 2024
TURBO-AE Code During the 1990s, NASA developed a computer code that generates two-dimensional simulations of potential aeroelastic (AE) problems that can occur in jet engine blades. Jet Engine Combustors During the 1990s and early 2000s, NASA improved the technology associated with jet fuel combustion to help engines burn fuel more cleanly.
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