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<p><a href="page.php?w=Image%3AArea_rule_unifilar_drawing.svg">thumb</a>The <b>Whitcomb area rule</b>, named after a US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (<a href="page.php?w=NACA">NACA</a>) engineer <a href="page.php?w=Richard_T._Whitcomb">Richard Whitcomb</a> and also called the <b>transonic area rule</b>, is a design procedure used to reduce an <a href="page.php?w=aircraft">aircraft</a>'s <a href="page.php?w=drag_%28physics%29">drag</a> at <a href="page.php?w=transonic">transonic</a> speeds which occur between about <a href="page.php?w=Mach_number">Mach</a></p><p>
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