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Consider a general aviation airplane with weight 10 kN and a wing planform area of 15 m2. The drag coefficient of the airplane is given as CD = CD0 + KCL2 with CD0 = 0.025 and K = 0.05. For level flight at an altitude where the density is 0.60 kg/m3 and thrust 1 kN, the maximum cruise speed is _______ m/s. (rounded off to the nearest integer)
A
87
B
30
C
36
D
101

Correct : a

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