Definitions
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- adverb In an
aerodynamic manner, in a manner which reducesdrag . - adverb From the perspective of aerodynamics.
Etymologies
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Examples
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There is one optimum shape for a car body, aerodynamically, which is why so many cars pretty much look the same these days.
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Consider this: The F-22 is an airplane so aerodynamically clean it can cruise supersonically w/o afterburner.
Matthew Yglesias » Mark Bowden, Atlantic, Shilling for the F-22 2009
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They were thundering down the face of the cliff, the entire airframe pitched over at what felt like an aerodynamically impossible angle.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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They were thundering down the face of the cliff, the entire airframe pitched over at what felt like an aerodynamically impossible angle.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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Winged spacecraft that are aerodynamically stable in the subsonic gliding regime will never be stable in the hypersonic re-entry regime.
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The others in the tunnel — an echoing acoustic nightmare, even if it is aerodynamically brilliant — go quiet.
Black magic: Chris Boardman and Rory Sutherland in the wind tunnel 2011
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Their designs were also far from optimal aerodynamically.
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Winged spacecraft that are aerodynamically stable in the subsonic gliding regime will never be stable in the hypersonic re-entry regime.
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They were thundering down the face of the cliff, the entire airframe pitched over at what felt like an aerodynamically impossible angle.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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Fortunately for the crew, capsules are aerodynamically stable at any speed, and the soyuz had been designed to naturally trend into a 9G trajectory in the absence of computer control.
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