Originally Posted by
Cubdriver
Not trying to shake anything up here, shadow. Use your peer-reviewed textbooks for your ultimate understanding of these topics. These forums are for exploring ideas and I am none other than a humble servant of such topics. What I say does not supercede the current peer-reviewed scholarship available on the subject. I gladly defer to any peer-reviewed textbook copy you would like to bring forth.
Well the textbooks I looked in were Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators and Flight Theory for Pilots. The sites were a Stanford site, wikipedia, and various other no name sites. Nor am I, I just didn't see a source which referred to form drag as something other than parasite or a source that linked it to having similarities with induced drag. That is why I asked if you could post them up or explain its relationship so I can understand it.
