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Units in Aeronautics

Nature volume 109, pages 74–75 (1922)Cite this article

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WRITE the usual formula in aeronautics, R/S=23.7(V/100)2, lb/ft2, in the Hospitalier notation, and the practical airman recognises that the resistance R, lb, over a surface S, ft2, is at the rate 23.7 lb/ft2 at a normal velocity of 100 f/s; and so on for any other velocity V, on the law of the square.

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GREENHILL, G. Units in Aeronautics. Nature 109, 74–75 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109074b0

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