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An Aircraft Design Toolbox
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Check aircraft induced drag for proper efficiency usage #27

Closed timdmacdo closed 9 years ago

timdmacdo commented 10 years ago

Check that proper efficiency is being used for calculation. Current method uses full aircraft efficiency with aspect ratio of main wing.

https://github.com/suavecode/SUAVE/blob/master/trunk/SUAVE/Methods/Aerodynamics/Drag/Correlations/induced_drag_aircraft.py#L42

planes commented 9 years ago

Done, changed oswald efficiency calculations using 241 methods.