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Re: Airplane drag

At 11:00 PM 9/12/99 -0400, you wrote:
At 02:31 PM 9/12/99 -0600, Jim Green wrote:
>
>If I understand the site correctly, the drag _does_ pass through a minimum
>as airspeed increases

Yes, under the usual reasonable assumptions. That's a well-known fact.

Ok, John, but I understood you and Brian to say that drag always goes as
v^2. What did I miss from the previous posts?

Jim Green
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