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Physical Examples

  Prandtl's sucked cylinder (1904):

Experimental German plane with suction at the flap knee (flew 1940):

Mixed suction and blowing on a French Breguet Vultur (flew 1956):

U.S. L-1 liason plane with suction flaps (flew 1944):

U.S. XC-123D with suction inboard, blowing outboard (flew 1955)

U.S. F-86F with leading edge suction (flew 1953)

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