The small upward curl on every passenger jet wing traces back to one 1976 NASA paper by Richard Whitcomb, and it can save airlines thousands of dollars per flight in fuel
🗺 Part of the Growth List Startup Lists Collection All Startup Lists | By Funding Stage | Sales Outreach | Startup Intelligence Richard Whitcomb, a NASA aerodynamicist working at Langley Research Center in Virginia, published a technical note in 1976 with the unglamorous title A design approach and selected wind-tunnel results at high subsonic speeds … Read more
