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Wave drag due to volume is reduced most effectively by
Answer: B
Volume-dependent wave drag scales with the square of the thickness ratio, so halving the thickness cuts it to a quarter. This is why supersonic wings are so conspicuously thin, typically three to five per cent, and why fitting fuel and structure inside them is such a difficult design problem.
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