Küchemann Carrots
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Küchemann Carrots is a colloquial term used to refer to antishock bodies placed at the trailing edge of a subsonic aircraft's wings in order to reduce the drag it experiences as it enters the transonic flight regime. They were concurrently developed by Richard Whitcomb at NASA and Dietrich Küchemann, a German aerodynamicist, in the early 1950's. The Handley-Page Victor bomber was particularly well-known for featuring a conspicuous pair of Küchemann Carrots, so-called because of their distinctive shape.
