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IN his experiments on the resistance of the air to spheres, M. Eiffel showed that for a certain critical velocity for a given sphere the resistance suddenly fails. The critical velocity appears to be very different for different spheres; e.g. in his paper (Comptes rendus, December 30, 1912) the sudden change is shown to begin at velocities of 12, 7, and 4 metres per second for spheres of diameter 16.2, 24.4 and 33.0 cm. respectively.
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SHAKESPEAR, G. Stability of Aroplanes. Nature 92, 165 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/092165b0
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