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Volume 60, Issue 1
1 January 1988
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| January 01 1988

Microscopic Rib Profiles Will Increase Aircraft Economy in Flight Available to Purchase

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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1988
Aircraft Engineering (1988) 60 (1): 11.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb036554

THE streamline airflow on the outer skin of an aircraft — known as the boundary layer — reduces drag, saves fuel and so enhances cruising economy.

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