Riblets were applied to areas on the sides of a Zipair 787’s fuselage using O-Well’s paint-to-paint process.
Credit: JAXA
Japanese LCC Zipair Tokyo, a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan Air Lines (JAL), has begun operating a Boeing 787-8 with a drag-reducing riblet coating applied to areas of the fuselage. Riblets are microscopic grooves aligned with the airflow that reduce skin-fiction drag by limiting the surface area...
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