A review is given of the NASA/Industry/University General Aviation Drag Reduction Workshop which was held at The University of Kansas, July 14-16, 1975. It is shown that large drag reductions can be made, particularly in propeller driven airplanes. It is also shown, however, that existing drag prediction methods are inadequate to cope with propeller driven airplanes. Many unknowns are shown to exist with regard to the problem of designing general aviation airplanes for minimum drag. Several areas for potentially fruitful research are indicated. A list of 123 drag references is included.This paper is based on work supported by NASA under NASA Grant NSG 1175.


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    Title :

    Review of the General Aviation Drag Reduction Workshop


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:
    Roskam, Jan (author)

    Conference:

    National Business Aircraft Meeting and Engineering Display ; 1976



    Publication date :

    1976-02-01




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English