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Old 01-02-2003 | 06:46 PM
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phillybaby,

While it is true that a section with the correct camber will have lower profile drag, a flat bottom likely has too much camber for high speed. In any case, it is the lift itself that causes induced drag ( the 'vortices' ), not the angle of attack. It doesn't matter whether how you generate lift, induced drag increases as lift increases.

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