A development history is presented for flight tests of flow-laminarizing technologies, from the wooden-structure wing glove used with the B-18 of about 1940 to the X-21 of 1963-1965 and the wing incidence-varying tests conducted with gloved-wing F-111 and F-14 variable-sweep aircraft in more recent years. Natural laminar flight control testing has also been conducted with a B 757 airliner. Over the years, increasing attention has been given to the treatment of the leading edge of laminar flow wings in order to prevent flow instabilities that precipitate flow transition to turbulence farther aft.


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    Title :

    Laminar flow flight experiments - A review


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    Publication date :

    1992-01-01


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


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    Language :

    English




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