Richard T. Whitcomb, "Review of NASA Supercritical Airfoils," ICAS Paper 74-10, August 1974.
Richard T. Whitcomb, "Transonic Airfoil Development," AGARD-R-712, 1983.
P.A. Henne and R. D. Gregg, "A New Airfoil Design Concept," AIAA Paper 89-2201, July 1989. Just when it appeared that airfoil design had reached maturity, a new concept was found to further improve performance.
R. D. Gregg, R. W. Hoch, and P.A. Henne, "Application of Divergent Trailing-Edge Airfoil Technology to the Design of a Derivative Wing," SAE Technical Paper Series No. 892288, September 1989.
Charles D. Harris, "NASA Supercritical Airfoils," NASA TP 2969, March 1990. This report contains the detailed story of the airfoil development program conducted at Langley and directed by Whitcomb. It explains the aerodynamic thinking that was used to develop these airfoils. It also has ordinates for a family of airfoils designed for different lift and thickness. Contains a complete set of references to the previous work.
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