Drag Count Calculator

In Flight Mechanics, a “drag count” is a unit of measurement equal to one ten thousandth of a drag coefficient. The drag count is simply a ‘user friendly’ way to express the drag coefficient. Drag counts are especially useful when adding external protuberance to an aircraft. The formula to calculate drag count is as follows:

Where:

  • CD is the Drag coefficient.

 

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