GATE AE · 2026 · AE
Question 56: Airfoils and Wings
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Question 56
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Consider a finite wing of aspect ratio 10 with span effectiveness factor 0.95. Its airfoil section has a lift slope of 0.106 per degree and a zero-lift angle of attack of −1.5°. The lift coefficient of the wing at an angle of attack of 3.5° is ________ (rounded off to 2 decimal places).
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2026AE
GATE AE 2026 · Paper 1
Aerospace Engineering · Original paper archive
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- Aerospace Engineering
- Question type
- Numerical answer (NAT)
- Marks
- 2 marks
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