A low-speed investigation has been conducted in the Langley two- dimensional low-turbulence tunnel to study a sweptback wing-root air-inlet configuration believed suitable for transonic-speed jet-powered airplanes. The test configurations consisted of a basic model with an NACA 64-008 wing with quarter-chord sweepback of 45 deg mounted in the mid-wing position on a fuselage of fineness ratio 6.7, and an inlet model which had a triangular-shaped sweptback inlet installed in the wing root. Installation of the wing-root inlet was accomplished with no significant effects on the force characteristics of the basic wing. The fuselage boundary layer entering the inlet was thin and required no boundary-layer-control device ahead of the inlet. Near unity inlet total- pressure recovery was obtained to about 86 percent of the maximum lift coefficient over a large range of inlet-velocity ratio. Maximum local velocities over the external surfaces of the inlet sections were no greater than those over the wing at a midspan station for the assumed high-speed operating conditions.


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    Title :

    Low-Speed Wind-Tunnel Investigation of a Triangular Sweptback Air Inlet in the Root of a 45 deg Sweptback Wing


    Contributors:
    A. L. Keith (author) / J. Schiff (author)

    Publication date :

    1955


    Size :

    67 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English