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