Truths and Myths About Natural Laminar Flow Airfoils

Credit: Eclipse Aviation
Natural laminar flow (NLF) airfoils are key to achieving optimum performance and fuel efficiency in many vintage and current production turbine-powered business aircraft. NLF is not a new discovery. For more than seven decades aerodynamic engineers have known that achieving laminar flow in the...

Subscription Required

 

This content requires a subscription to one of the Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) bundles.

Schedule a demo today to find out how you can access this content and similar content related to your area of the global aviation industry.

Already an AWIN subscriber? Login

 

Did you know?  Aviation Week has won top honors multiple times in the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards, the business-to-business media equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes.