Answer by Peter Kämpf for When did fighter jet designers stop prioritizing...
Of course designers still care about the area rule, but it has become less important. The original area rule is just for Mach 1; at higher speeds you need to look at the cross section distribution...
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According to this source, designers of military fighter jets seemed to have stopped centering their design on Whitcomb's Area Rule for quite a while. Yet even the twin series fighters struggle to break...
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