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one of NASA's major goals for the ladies

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explore the nature of the air that

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passes over surfaces of an airplanes

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wings and fuselage the smooth flow of

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smoke from this burning cigarette is a

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good example of laminar air flow when an

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the airboat it's debris on the smallest

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six thousandths of an inch even bugs

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turn with its results the scrubbing

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action of the air causes drag

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maintaining laminar air flow can reduce

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a research team working out of the aim

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dryden flight research facility in

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California a client against our business

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size aircraft with two especially

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adapted wing sections as seen in this

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model the test sections are designed to

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is that airflow can be called laminar

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over a very smooth Wayne section if air

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is sucked through regularly spaced pores

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or slots in the wind both wing sections

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have systems that have the wing clean of

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bugs ice and others in town the primary

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focus of this study is reply to jet star

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in typical commercial airline routes

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across the country in order to feed both

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systems worthiness under US and distance

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pilot gone now this really isn't in

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general exposure all over the country in

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the airline environment get it out of

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the test area and put it to work

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scientists at the langley research

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facility in hampton virginia are also

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studying laminar flow they use a Learjet

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as a modern wing design incorporating

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smooth

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which chemicals are

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allowing researchers to see natural

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laminar and turbulent airflow patterns

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as they occur during different

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conditions changes color according to

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close been seen

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since the late 1930s it was believed

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that laminar flow couldn't exist on

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airplane wings the smoothness of plane

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wings today makes the difference Richard

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Wagner talks about going a step further

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and applying laminar flow is supersonic

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applications we intend to a flight test

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on f-106 and look to see him this long

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before we can get on the wings and on

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the vertical tail many people believe

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that allowing a flow control at

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supersonic speeds could be the answer to

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an economical supersonic transport

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laminar flow for many years ignored as a

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way to reuse Dragon hairodynamic

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research now of promising a permission