Aeronautical Engineering Blunders of the 20th Century

Our format will be to list each blunder, prove the impossibility of a basis for this blunder being acceptable thinking, and then look at the error or errors in thinking that brought about each blunder.

  1. The effort to produce lift by cambered airfoils
  2. Roof-top airfoils
  3. Lifting bodies
  4. Boundary layer phenomenon
  5. The fallacy of the Venturi
  6. Wake turbulence
  7. Aero Engineering's denial of the possibility of Ground Effect
  8. The Supercritical Wing

 
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