Taming Turbulence With Tape: Conformal Vortex Generators

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It doesn’t surprise pilot and inventor Peter Ireland that potential customers are quick to write off his hybrid laminar flow device as smoke and mirrors. He, too, was a skeptic until the impact of his invention clunked him on the head like Newton’s apple during a helicopter ground test in 2007...

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