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Rocketry Glossary

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Airfoil

An airfoil is the streamlined shape given to fins or wings for maximum aerodynamic efficiency in flight. A conventional airfoil, optimized for subsonic flight, has a rounded leading edge tapering to a pointed trailing edge.


   

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