On Friday 02 April 2004 13:33, Jon Berndt wrote: [...] > drag coefficient of the aircraft. The P-51 was also the first aircraft to > utilize the NACA laminar-flow airfoil sections, discussed earlier. Although > it is doubtful that any significant laminar flow was achieved on production > versions of the Mustang, the low-drag airfoils did provide improved > characteristics at high subsonic Mach numbers."
How is the situation in this area today? Do for instance modern jet fighters have laminar flow over the whole wing? (I guess the whole picture changes a lot when you go supersonic.) -- best regards, Gunnstein Lye Systems engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eZ systems | ez.no _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
