![Explained: Flap Track Fairings/Whitcomb Area Rule [Airplanes] @JoshTheEngineer](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/y100a_nB984/maxresdefault.jpg)
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What are flap track fairings and what purpose do they serve on an airplane? These canoe-shaped pieces house linkages and mechanisms that connect the flaps to the wing. As an added bonus (if designed correctly), they can help decrease the wave drag by something known as area-ruling.
Reference(s):
aerospaceweb.org/question/aerodynamics/q0240.shtml
What are flap track fairings and what purpose do they serve on an airplane? These canoe-shaped pieces house linkages and mechanisms that connect the flaps to the wing. As an added bonus (if designed correctly), they can help decrease the wave drag by something known as area-ruling.
Reference(s):
aerospaceweb.org/question/aerodynamics/q0240.shtml
![Explained: Flap Track Fairings/Whitcomb Area Rule [Airplanes]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/y100a_nB984/mqdefault.jpg "Explained: Flap Track Fairings/Whitcomb Area Rule [Airplanes]
What are flap track fairings and what purpose do they serve on an airplane? These canoe-shaped pieces house linkages and mechanisms that connect the flaps to the wing. As an added bonus (if designed correctly), they can help decrease the wave drag by something known as area-ruling.
Reference(s):
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/aerodynamics/q0240.shtml")
![Explained: Selectively Delete Plots in GUI [MATLAB]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ysaj4K7PRHI/mqdefault.jpg "Explained: Selectively Delete Plots in GUI [MATLAB]
This video describes how to plot two lines on the same plot in a GUI axes object, and then selectively delete each of the lines using push buttons.")
![Explained: Constant Total Enthalpy [Taylor-Maccoll]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yy5HQ9syrrI/mqdefault.jpg "Explained: Constant Total Enthalpy [Taylor-Maccoll]
In order to use Croccos Theorem for the Taylor-Maccoll problem, it is necessary to show why the total enthalpy along a streamline is constant (within the given assumptions). We start with the energy equation couched in terms of the total enthalpy, and reduce the equation with our assumptions from a previous video in this series. The final result will be used in the derivation of Croccos Theorem.")
![Explained: Waitbar Cancel Button [MATLAB]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zSGcjtu5iQQ/mqdefault.jpg "Explained: Waitbar Cancel Button [MATLAB]
When youre using a waitbar and your simulation/code is taking too long, it would be nice to have a button that allows you to break out of the iteration loop. The cancel button on the waitbar lets you do just this.
Basic waitbar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2wKPxRUPiE
Waitbar color change
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjkajdAE8vA")
