Assertion: supercritical airfoil | /r/CapableOf | feature four main benefits
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text: Supercritical airfoils feature four main benefits: they have a higher drag-divergence Mach number, they develop shock waves further aft than traditional airfoils, they greatly reduce shock-induced boundary layer separation, and their geometry allows more efficient wing design (e.g., a thicker wing and/or reduced wing sweep, each of which may allow a lighter wing).