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Application of hybrid laminar flow control to global range military transport aircraft
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Lange, Roy H. |
| Copyright Year | 1988 |
| Description | A study was conducted to evaluate the application of hybrid laminar flow control (HLFC) to global range military transport aircraft. The global mission included the capability to transport 132,500 pounds of payload 6500 nautical miles, land and deliver the payload and without refueling return 6500 nautical miles to a friendly airbase. The preliminary design studies show significant performance benefits obtained for the HLFC aircraft as compared to counterpart turbulent flow aircraft. The study results at M=0.77 show that the largest benefits of HLFC are obtained with a high wing with engines on the wing configuration. As compared with the turbulent flow baseline aircraft, the high wing HLFC aircraft shows 17 percent reduction in fuel burned, 19.2 percent increase in lift-to-drag ratio, an insignificant increase in operating weight, and a 7.4 percent reduction in gross weight. |
| File Size | 4010911 |
| Page Count | 100 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19880011740 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t1ng9jb09 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1988-04-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Aerodynamics Military Operations Turbulence Laminar Boundary Layer Laminar Flow Transport Aircraft Lift Drag Ratio Weight Reduction Fuel Consumption Boundary Layer Control Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
