Airbus Advances Wing Aerodynamics Program

LYON, France—Airbus has completed the second of three flight-test campaigns in the Blade demonstration program, aimed at evaluating the feasibility of natural laminar flow on a commercial aircraft. A “super smooth” laminar air flow, as opposed to a turbulent air flow, creates less skin-friction drag...

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