;Table of Contents: Foreword; Preface; Laminar-Flow Control Concepts and Scope of Monograph; Early Research on Suction-Type Laminar-Flow Control (Research from the 1930s through the War Years; Research from after World War II to the Mid-1960s); Post X-21 Research on Suction-Type Laminar-Flow Control; Status of Laminar-Flow Control Technology in the Mid-1990s; Glossary; Document 1-Aeronautics Panel, AACB, R&D Review, Report of the Subpanel on Aeronautic Energy Conservation/Fuels; Document 2-Report of Review Group on X-21A Laminar Flow Control Program; Document 3-Langley Research Center Announcement: Establishment of Laminar Flow Control Working Group; Document 4-Intercenter Agreement for Laminar Flow Control Leading Edge Glove Flights, LaRC and DFRC; Document 5-Flight Report NLF-144, of AFTIF-111 Aircraft with the TACT Wing Modified by a Natural Laminar Flow Glove; Document 6-Flight Record, F-16XL Supersonic Laminar Flow Control Aircraft; Index; and About the Author.
History of Suction-Type Laminar-Flow Control with Emphasis on Flight Resrearch. Monographs in Aerospace History Number 13
1999
90 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Aircraft , Aerodynamics , Laminar flow , Suction , Flight tests , History , Boundary layers , Reynolds number , Leading edges , Swpt wings , Pressure distribution , Wing profiles , Flow control , Aircraft configurations , Aerodynamic drag , Supersonic flow , Computational fluid dyanmics , Icing , Surfaces , Insects , Noise pollution , Research projects