Reference Text: "Summary of Airfoil Data" - National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics

Old but valuable, airfoil theory and the aerodynamic characteristics of various airfoil sections (NACA profiles)


The complete text available via the NASA Technical Report Server: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19930090976_1993090976.pdf


Report No. 824
Summary of Airfoil Data, 1945
by: Ira H. Abbott, Albert E. von Doenhoff & Louis S. Stivers, Jr.


Also see: University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign - Airfoil Coordinates Database 

Conflict Resolution: Newton, Bernoulli and 'Lift'

A professor of mine from university put together a superb essay for The Physics Teacher clarifying the concept of aerodynamic lift and how it can be best described by either Newton or Bernoulli's laws. Although this targets educators, undergrad engineering/physics students would probably appreciate the accessibility of this essay.


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