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Old 09-08-2012, 07:50 AM
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Originally Posted by ATAG_Dutch View Post
Quite correct. This is known as 'The Meredith Effect' and the Spitfire was one of the first aircraft designed to incorporate a radiator housing designed to produce this effect.
Lol... all that for this.

Rectification: "one of the first aircraft [that you may know] designed to incorporate" and blablabla...

Secondly: Supermarine had no idea of what was a boundary layer and in particularly bellow the wing. This is why the Spitfire rads are so deep in shape compared to their German's counterparts or latter US design.

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