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80 all the time.also keeping in mind the air thins out the higher you go making 'Buffet' margins easier to define.because there are low speed margins (encroaching stall area) and high speed margins(airframe limits) and these margin areas compress as the altitude increases.temperatures in the 35,000 to 40,000 ft altitudes can be 50* to 60* below zero.If you compute your props tip speed, I know for full scale aircraft anything over roughly 650ft/sec props start making lots of noise.like a T6 prop.really wails t/o power.Bill. at say 20,000 ft your indicated airspeed is 350 knots now check in 37,000 ft it might now be 240 knots indicated where by using a mach number a pilot could see. Taper has the desirable effect of reducing the root bending stress by shifting the lift inboard, but it has been argued by some noted designers, including John Thorp and Karl Bergey, that an untapered rectangular planform is best for aeroplanes of less than 6,000 pounds gross flying at altitudes above 20k ft the indicated airspeed starts to decrease at a good pace.to make flying easier above 20,000 ft the mach number was employed because it is much better at being user friendly.like Drela's post mentions it is only dependant on temp.modern aircraft use ADC,s( air data computers) to compute Mach Number.

The ratio of tip chord to root chord is called the taper ratio. The wings of jet airliners, which are highly optimized for efficiency, are far from elliptical in shape. A number of factors influence induced drag, however, and as a practical matter a wing of elliptical planform, like that of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter of World War II, is not necessarily the most efficient. In theory, induced drag is at its minimum when the span wise distribution of lift is elliptical. The wings of fast subsonic craft such as jet airliners tend to be swept in order to delay the onset of these shock waves.

This soon leads to the shock stall, causing a rapid increase in drag. Small, low-altitude general aviation planes typically have aspect ratios of six or seven airliners of 12 or more and high-performance sailplanes of 30 or more.Īt speeds above the critical Mach number, the airflow begins to become transonic, with local airflow in some places causing small sonic shock waves to form. This is best achieved with a high aspect ratio, and high-performance types often have this kind of wing.īut other considerations such as light weight, structural stiffness, manoeuvrability, ground handling and so on often benefit from a shorter span and, consequently a less efficient wing. It is therefore desirable for a wing to have the least area compatible with the desired lift characteristics.

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The drag of a wing consists of two components: the induced drag, which is related to the production of lift, and the profile drag, largely due to skin friction which is contributed to by the whole wing area. A higher aspect ratio gives a higher lift/drag ratio and so is more efficient. The aerodynamic efficiency of a wing is described by its lift/drag ratio, with a wing giving high lift for little drag being the most efficient. They are related by the aspect ratio, which is the ratio of the span, measured from tip to tip, to the average chord, measured from leading edge to trailing edge. The span and area of a wing are both important to the lift characteristics. Wing design A Spitfire built in 1945 shows off its straight elliptical wing Pure jets such as the turbojet and ramjet are inefficient at subsonic speeds and not often used. At higher subsonic speeds and at high altitudes, such as attained by most airliners, the turbojet or turbofan becomes necessary. Sometimes it is enclosed in the form of a ducted fan.

The propeller is one of the most efficient sources of thrust available and is common on subsonic aeroplanes and airships. At high subsonic speeds, compressibility effects begin to appear. Subsonic flight is characterised aerodynamically by incompressible flow, where dynamic pressure changes due to motion through the air cause the air to flow away from areas of high dynamic pressure to areas of lower dynamic pressure, leaving the static pressure and density of the surrounding air constant.