Discussion
The Whitcomb area rule states that transonic wave drag depends chiefly on
Answer: D
Whitcomb showed that the whole aircraft behaves, at transonic speeds, like a body of revolution with the same streamwise area distribution. Making that distribution smooth is what matters, which is why fuselages were waisted at the wing junction to give the characteristic Coke-bottle shape.
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