The flagship demonstration under Europe’s Clean Sky civil aeronautics research program is entering the hardware stage, aiming for first flight of the Airbus A340-300-based laminar flow wing ...
Painstaking assembly of ultrasmooth wing sections for Europe’s Airbus A340-based natural laminar flow demonstrator is set to start as the first structural components begin arriving at Aernnova in ...
In the quest for greater efficiency of large transport aircraft, efforts to reduce wing drag through conventional aerodynamic tweaks have largely been exhausted, in the view of Airbus senior ...