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How does tilting a flap change the drag on a wing?
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Could the reason why some birds don't fly be that they don't have a good airfoil?
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How do they get really fast cars to stay on the ground?
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What is the meaning of stalling and explain it?
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How do I explain aerodynamics in a sentence?
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How do you measure the steam flow in a steam turbine?
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At Mach 2, does the boundary layer become thinner compared to subsonic speeds?
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What is meant by airfoil?
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What is equal transit line theory?
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How does vortex velocity vary with the velocity of aircraft?
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