Paper shows that advances made in transonic airfoil technology could be applied to business aircraft; phenomenological differences between flow characteristics of newer transonic airfoils and conventional NASA-type airfoils are described; emphasis is on supercritical flow generation and recompression without shock-wave, boundary-layer interaction sufficiently strong to destroy airfoil aerodynamic efficiency; one deterrent to use of improved transonic airfoils is sophisticated design methodology required to transform airfoil into successful three-dimensional wing; some techniques for designing compatible wings and fuselages, where large percentage of their surfaces is covered with supercritical flow, are described.
Recent transonic airfoil developments and some business aircraft implications
SAE -- Paper
SAE Meeting ; 1968 Wings and airfoils
1968
15 pages
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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Recent Transonic Airfoil Developments and Some Business Aircraft Implications
SAE Technical Papers | 1968
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