A sail plane with a lift-to-drag ratio of 25 flies with a speed of (50 mathrm{mph}). It

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A sail plane with a lift-to-drag ratio of 25 flies with a speed of \(50 \mathrm{mph}\). It maintains or increases its altitude by flying in thermals, columns of vertically rising air produced by buoyancy effects of nonuniformly heated air. What vertical airspeed is needed if the sail plane is to maintain a constant altitude?

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Munson Young And Okiishi's Fundamentals Of Fluid Mechanics

ISBN: 9781119080701

8th Edition

Authors: Philip M. Gerhart, Andrew L. Gerhart, John I. Hochstein

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