Parasitic drag, also known as profile drag,: 254 : 256  is a type of aerodynamic drag that acts on any object when the object is moving through a fluid...

wake behind the body. Parasitic drag, or profile drag, is drag caused by moving a solid object through a fluid. Parasitic drag is made up of multiple...

total drag can be decomposed into a parasitic drag component and a lift-induced drag component, where parasitic drag is all components of drag except...

Lift-induced drag, induced drag, vortex drag, or sometimes drag due to lift, in aerodynamics, is an aerodynamic drag force that occurs whenever a moving...

i}} is the lift-induced drag coefficient at the same conditions. Thus, zero-lift drag coefficient is reflective of parasitic drag which makes it very useful...

wingspan. Extending the span would lower lift-induced drag, but would increase parasitic drag and would require boosting the strength and weight of the...

by a sail increases, so does lift-induced drag, which together with parasitic drag constitutes total drag, (D). This occurs when the angle of attack...

in supersonic flight. Parasitic drag: While high aspect wings create less induced drag, they have greater parasitic drag (drag due to shape, frontal area...

[citation needed] Glossary of firearms terms Aerodynamic drag Boundary layer Nose cone design Parasitic drag Petzal, David E. (7 July 2014). "Understanding VLD...

temperatures encountered near the tropopause and low air density, reducing parasitic drag on the airframe. Stated another way, it allows the airliner to fly faster...

rudder. Theoretical advantages of the tailless configuration include low parasitic drag as on the Horten H.IV soaring glider and good stealth characteristics...

of flight below the maximum lift to drag ratio, where induced drag becomes more significant than parasitic drag. Slow flight can be as slow as 3-5 knots...

aircraft of speed very quickly due to induced drag, and, in extreme cases, increased frontal area and parasitic drag. Not only do such maneuvers slow the aircraft...

indicated airspeed). This is proportional to CL2. The other drag mechanisms, parasitic and wave drag, have both constant components, totalling CD0, and lift-dependent...

which has a low thickness-to-chord ratio. At lower speeds, undesirable parasitic drag is largely a function of the total surface area, which suggests using...

at an unpredictable angle. In automotive parlance, windage refers to parasitic drag on the crankshaft due to sump oil splashing on the crank train during...

minimum drag differs from the parasitic drag. On these cases, a new approximate parabolic drag equation can be traced leaving the minimum drag value at...

nosewheel. As a result, the smaller wheel weighs less and causes less parasitic drag. Because of the way airframe loads are distributed while operating on...

efficiency. Parasitic drag is constituted by form drag and skin-friction drag, and grows with the square of the speed in the drag equation. The form drag is minimized...

performance over most other combat-configured fighters due to a lack of parasitic drag from external stores. The F-22's thrust and aerodynamics enable regular...

especially by striving for lightweight construction, but also by minimizing parasitic drag from aerodynamic surfaces. His critics accused him of taking this approach...

and even creating pathways through the aircraft structure to mitigate parasitic drag that leads to shock waves. As part of the Quiet Spike project, a retractable...

capable of generating lift. Total drag on an aircraft is made up of parasitic drag and lift-induced drag. Parasitic drag is so named because it is not useful...

prone. The great advantage of the Horten designs was the relatively low parasitic drag of their airframes. By 1939, with Adolf Hitler in power and the Treaty...

engine speed so that the manifold pressure can increase—but in practice, parasitic drag on the internal walls of the manifold, plus the restrictive nature of...

generated by a sail increases, so does lift-induced drag, which together with parasitic drag constitute total drag, which acts in a direction parallel to the incident...

Retrieved 21 April 2020. Holdener, Richard (1 November 2006). "Reduce Parasitic Drag – Pump Up The Power – Dr. Dyno". Mustang 360. Anyebe, E.A (2009). Combustion...

drag. For example, propeller aircraft have a tendency to yaw when operating at high power, for instance when climbing; this increases parasitic drag because...

and has less wetted surface area, so thus produces less induced and parasitic drag. However, NACA studies indicated that the V-tail surfaces must be larger...

the reduction of flow moving over the wingtip and resulting in less parasitic drag due to wingtip vortices. Using computational modeling, it was determined...