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The Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Lower Drag (PRANDTL-d) Makes a Test Flight

The Prandtl-d makes a test flight in 2014.
Program Manager Al Bowers named the first iteration of his work the “Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design To Lower Drag (PRANDTL-D)

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Program Manager Al Bowers named the first iteration of his work the “Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design To Lower Drag (PRANDTL-D)”. He began his multiple-year trek to prove that not only could adverse yaw be overcome, but it could be turned into proverse yaw for aircraft, without relying on rudders or complicated computerized flight controls to accomplish it – just as birds achieve it…Learn more
August 8, 2014
NASA Photo / Tom Tschida