Manufacturing innovative aircraft wings

Natural laminar flow wing technology is one of the key developments needed to reduce drag in next-generation aircraft with potential fuel savings. An EU-funded project laid the groundwork for their design, thus increasing and strengthening the competitiveness of the European manufacturing industry.

The project EULOSAM (Design and manufacturing of baseline low-speed, low-sweep wind tunnel model) completed the manufacture of an aircraft large-scale half-model for testing in ONERA’s pressurised low-speed wind tunnel F1FM. An aircraft manufacturer provided an original fuselage model whose design was modified in such a way that it can be rebuilt to its original shape for future use in another wind tunnel. The model design was completed in a previous Clean Sky project.

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