one of NASA's major goals for the ladies
explore the nature of the air that
passes over surfaces of an airplanes
wings and fuselage the smooth flow of
smoke from this burning cigarette is a
good example of laminar air flow when an
airplane wing is built perfectly smooth
the airboat it's debris on the smallest
six thousandths of an inch even bugs
turn with its results the scrubbing
action of the air causes drag
maintaining laminar air flow can reduce
aerodynamic drag from 25 to 40
a research team working out of the aim
dryden flight research facility in
California a client against our business
size aircraft with two especially
adapted wing sections as seen in this
model the test sections are designed to
artificially
is that airflow can be called laminar
over a very smooth Wayne section if air
is sucked through regularly spaced pores
or slots in the wind both wing sections
have systems that have the wing clean of
bugs ice and others in town the primary
focus of this study is reply to jet star
in typical commercial airline routes
across the country in order to feed both
systems worthiness under US and distance
pilot gone now this really isn't in
general exposure all over the country in
the airline environment get it out of
the test area and put it to work
scientists at the langley research
facility in hampton virginia are also
studying laminar flow they use a Learjet
as a modern wing design incorporating
smooth
which chemicals are
allowing researchers to see natural
laminar and turbulent airflow patterns
as they occur during different
conditions changes color according to
aerodynamic events
close been seen
since the late 1930s it was believed
that laminar flow couldn't exist on
airplane wings the smoothness of plane
wings today makes the difference Richard
Wagner talks about going a step further
and applying laminar flow is supersonic
applications we intend to a flight test
on f-106 and look to see him this long
before we can get on the wings and on
the vertical tail many people believe
that allowing a flow control at
supersonic speeds could be the answer to
an economical supersonic transport
laminar flow for many years ignored as a
way to reuse Dragon hairodynamic
research now of promising a permission
to greater efficiency
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