Bruce J. Holmes and C.J. Obara, "Observations and Implications of Natural Laminar Flow on Practical Airplane Surfaces, Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 20, No. 12, Dec. 1983, pp.993-1006. This is an excellent survey.
R.D. Wagner, D.V. Maddalon, D.W. Bartlett, and F.S. Collier, Jr., "Fifty Years of Laminar Flow Flight Testing," SAE Paper 881393, October 1988. This is another good survey, including results from recent flight experiments including the 757 and F-14 glove.
G.S. Manuel and W.A. Doty, "Flight-Test Investigation of Certification Requirements for Laminar-Flow General Aviation Airplanes," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 28, No. 10, Oct. 1991, pp. 652-656. Results of flight test on a modified Cessna T210R.
F. S. Collier, Jr., "An Overview of Recent Subsonic Laminar Flow Control Flight Experiments," AIAA Paper 93-2987, July 1993.
Ronald D. Joslin, "Aircraft Laminar Flow Control," Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 1998, Vol. 30, pp. 1-29. This paper is a very good update to previous surveys.
see also the AIAA volume edited by Dennis M. Bushnell and Jerry N. Hefner: Viscous Drag Reduction in Boundary Layers, AIAA, Washington, 1990. Key Aero Configuration Effects Data Sources
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