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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

787-9 Laminar Flow Work?

Boeing is apparently aiming to reduce horizontal tail drag by 1% with a new design.  Anybody besides me starting to think that we're approaching some kind of asymptote on the efficiency of "Tube and Wing" aircraft configurations?

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2011/06/17/358123/boeing-tests-hybrid-laminar-flow-control-for-787-9.html

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