Airfoil was developed by German Max Munk .
It was devised by German-American mathematician Max Munk and further refined by British aerodynamicist Hermann Glauert and othersAbbott , Ira H. , and Von Doenhoff , Albert E. ( 1959 ) , Theory of Wing Sections , Section 4.2 , Dover Publications Inc. , New York , Standard Book Number 486-60586-8 in the 1920s .
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