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Adolf Busemann
Adolf Busemann
Pages 62-67
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Busemann belonged to the famous German school of aeroclynamicists led by Ludwig PrancitI, a group that includec! Theodore von Karman, Max M
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Jacobs of the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics's [Langley Laboratory and Theodore van Karman, traveled to the meeting on the luxurious Conte de Savoia, courtesy of the Italian government. At this early period, the maximum speed that had been achieved, even by the Schneider Cup racers, was less than 300 miles per hour, and the idea of flying at supersonic speeds was far from the consciousness of the aeronautical community.
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When the group finally met with Busemann, van Karman asked, "What is this about wing sweep? " According to Schairer, Busemann's face lit up and he saicl, "Oh, you remember, ~ read a paper on it at the Volta Congress in 1935." Busemann went on to remind them that at a dinner following the meeting, Luigi Crocco, the prominent Italian aerodynamicist, had sketched an airplane having swept wings "and a swept propeller," labeling it "the airplane of the future." Schairer recalls that five of the 1935 dinner guests were present at the 1945 interview, anct all remembered the inciclent, although they had completely forgotten about the wing sweep concept during the ten-year interval.
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In principle, one coup form a lifting system with no wave drag by flying the upper wing of the biplane in close proximity to a flat reflecting surface. In one experiment at the National Aeronautics and Space Aciministration's Ames Research Center, we enclosed the streamlines of a Busemann biplane within a tube bounded by a circular cylinder ant!
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Has any bestiary a more lovable animal than the "baby hedgehog" or any utopia a shape more pleasantly named than the "apple curve"? My favorite character in all this magical kingdom is the "ingenious pipefitter," endlessly fitting his stream tubes around a body in the hope of constructing a transonic flow and then, like Sisyphus, starting over again when he fails to match the condition at infinity.
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