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- noun A rule stating that an
airplane designed with the same cross-sectional area distribution in thelongitudinal direction as the Sears-Haack body generates the same wave drag as this body, largelyindependent of the actualshape ; used inaerodynamics to reducedrag , typically by narrowing thefuselage at the wing roots.
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