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Anti-shock body is the name given by Richard T. Whitcomb to a pod positioned on the upper surface of a wing. Its purpose is to reduce wave drag while travelling at transonic speeds , which includes the typical cruising range of conventional jet airliners. 'The Cambridge Aerospace Dictionary' defines shock body as a streamlined volume added to improve area rule distribution.
The anti-shock, or shock body, was one of a number of ways of implementing what was then the recently developed area rule. Another was fuselage shaping.
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