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additional velocities airfoil section airfoils with flaps altitude Ames Aeronautical Laboratory angle of attack assumption base profile Bernoulli's equation Bicknell British A.R.C. calculations camber line chord COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS compressibility effects compressible flow CONFIDENTIAL constant cosine-squared critical Mach number critical speed declination points determined effect of compressibility equation equation evaluated Experimental Fc/Fi ficient flap 10c flap free stream FUNCTION OF MACH head loss high-speed dives hinge point horizontal tail plane incompressible integrating method isentropic Jones equation lift coefficient lift-coefficient range load distribution longitudinal control low-drag airfoils Moffett Field momentum method NACA NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE number is increased P-38 airplane Percentage of error pitching moment pitching-moment coefficient plain flaps pressure coefficient pressure distributions profile drag coefficient ratio Silverstein and Katzoff static longitudinal stability static pressure theoretical thin airfoil total-head loss variation velocity distribution velocity of sound velocity peak wake form wake shape WAKE SURVEYS Wallace F wind-tunnel