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.


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    Title :

    Recent transonic airfoil developments and some business aircraft implications


    Additional title:

    SAE -- Paper


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    SAE Meeting ; 1968 Wings and airfoils



    Publication date :

    1968


    Size :

    15 pages


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :




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