Natural laminar flow is a known means of reducing aircraft drag and energy consumption, but its practical implementation is difficult on commercial airliners that cruise at transonic speeds and ...

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's F-15B Research Testbed aircraft has been busy this spring, flying an experimental test fixture in partnership with Aerion Corporation of Reno, Nevada. NASA Dryden ...

Natural laminar flow (NLF) airfoils are key to achieving optimum performance and fuel efficiency in many vintage and current production turbine-powered business aircraft. NLF is not a new discovery.

Aerion is flight-testing a refined wing design for its supersonic business jet (SSBJ) using a NASA F-15B to assess aerodynamic and temperature effects at speeds up to Mach 2.0. The tests have been ...

Armando Collazo Garcia III got more than he expected from a graduate course he took last spring. He developed a new understanding of the physics of transonic shocks produced across a laminar flow ...

The aim is to make aviation in Europe climate-neutral by 2050. An important part of this is reducing the drag of future aircraft, with the wings playing a major role. The wings not only generate the ...

Development of a laminar flow wing that aims to cut fuel burn and carbon dioxide emissions by up to 6% on the next generation of narrowbodies is progressing steadily. The wing is being billed as ...

The unconventional Ryan FR Fireball was the only fighter in operational service to be powered by both piston and jet engines: a true blend of old and new technologies. The fireball was also the first ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 106, Section 1: JOURNAL OF AEROSPACE (1997), pp. 1478-1491 (14 pages) Temperature Sensitive Paint (TSP) technology coupled with the Reynolds number capability of modern wind ...