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🪂 Belly-Flop Descent Lab: Drag Area, Terminal Velocity and the Flip Manoeuvre — 2D Flight Dynamics Notebook

2D companion of the belly-flop descent lab: chase view, full trajectory, speed, dynamic pressure, attitude and terminal-velocity plots, driven by the same flight-dynamics solver as the 3D page.

Aerospace Engineering & Orbital Mechanics2DAdvanced60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

⚙ Under the hood

2D companion of the belly-flop descent lab: chase view, full trajectory, speed, dynamic pressure, attitude and terminal-velocity plots, driven by the same flight-dynamics solver as the 3D page.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install