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Lift and Drag Characteristics of the Douglas X-3 Research Airplane Obtained During Demonstration Flights to a Mach Number of 1.20

Donald R Bellman, Edward D Murphy

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Report presenting lift and drag data obtained during the Douglas X-3 airplane. The data covered the Mach number range from 0.82 to 1.20 with considerable variation in lift. A comparison of the flight data with data from wind-tunnel and rocket-model tests shows that the model tests adequately predict the performance of the airplane.

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Key concepts: Airplane, Mach number, Lift (data mining), Wind tunnel, Lift-to-drag ratio, Drag, Aerospace engineering, Drag divergence Mach number