ALL LAMINAR SAILPLANES WITH LOW DRAG BOUNDARY LAYER SUCTION

Authors

  • Werner Pfenninger

Keywords:

Aerodynamics, Structures, Design

Abstract

This report discusses the potential and the overall and detail design considerations of all-laminar Laminrt-Flow-Control (LFC) sailplanes. It is based on lectures given at the l8th OSTIV Conference in Hobbs, New Mexico, July 1983, and the convention of the Soaring Society of America in San Diego, California, March 1985. Except for the lower Reynolds number range of LFC sailplanes many problems involved in the design of global range LFC airplanes, especially of a performance demonstration LFC airplane of unprecedented range, are identical to those of all laminar high performance LFC sailplanes. Therefore, this report may be of much more general interest than for LFC sailplanes only.

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Vol. 11 No. 2-4 (1987)

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