skin friction
Britishnoun
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Theodore von Karman and Hsue-shen Tsien declared that to avoid heating and to keep down skin friction, the surface of the plane would have to be polished to mirror smoothness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, yuh see, the propeller has to make the machine move through the air with the smallest amount of skin friction.
From The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land by Gordon Stuart
The surfaces of the aeroplane are called the skin, and there is some friction of air against these surfaces, and that is called skin friction.
From The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land by Gordon Stuart
The metallic skeleton was built up from aluminium and over this was stretched the fabric of the envelope, care being observed to reduce skin friction, as well as to achieve impermeability.
From Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
With the cutting edge from 20 to 30 ft. below the river bottom, the calculations showed that the skin friction was between 500 and 600 lb. per sq. ft.
From Pressure, Resistance, and Stability of Earth American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, Paper No. 1174, Volume LXX, December 1910 by J. C. Meem
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