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The Weirdness of Water Part 1/2

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The Aerodynamics of Commercial Aircraft Wings

If you travel through enough frozen droplets in the sky, it can affect the aero dynamic structure of the wing an end up causing so much drag that it can actually take a plane. Commercial aircraft areb so that their wings are much greater and provide much more lift than they need to sort of stay up. So they'veactually got a lot of leeway really. They're not a, sort of, you know, teetering on the brink in terms of the amount of lift that they're capable of goi eti. You modelled that in your phd? Yes. That's like ormal am. Academic modeling in mass, right? What ar otap the

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