What Makes Airplanes Fly? : History, Science, and Applications of Aerodynamics /

How can an airplane weighing many tons stay aloft for many hours, flying so smoothly that the passengers may feel less like they are moving than they would in a car? The answer, of course, lies in the wings and the air they are moving through, and the study of the flow of air around airplane wings i...

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Main Author:	Wegener, Peter P.
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Springer New York, 1997.
Edition:	Second edition.
Subjects:	Physics. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book