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NACA RM No. L6K22 RESTRICTED
RESEARCH MEMORANDUM
SUMMARY
RESTRICTED
2 NACA Rl'1 No . I.J6K22
I tOvTard t he l eading edge when any of the h igh -Hft devic es was
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I nTRODUCTION
The sec tion lift and pi tchin '-moment char a cteri stics were
determined for both air foils 1.[i th th0 high -Hft devic es defl e cted
indi vidually and in combine.tion with ono anot her. The section dr ag
character istics were obtained for the 6 -porcent ·.. thick airfoi l ',.;i th
the flaps pe.r tly cleflected as low-drag -control flaps and f or both
airfoils y;-i th the fla.ps neutr u.l .
NACA RM N o· ~ L6K22 3
where
free-stream velocity
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MODElS
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up to 50 could be obtalned. The flaps were sealed at the hinge
line by having t he flap s kirt in rubb i ng contact v1i th the flap.
1-1hen the plain flap of the 6-perc ent -thick airfoil Has deflected
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beyond 50 , the gap between the flap and skir t vras sealed with
modeling clay to prevent leakaGe .
For all tests , the sur faces of the models were finished .Ti th
No. 400 carborundum paper to produce smooth surfaces ; slight
discontinuities, however) still exist6d at the leaf hinges on
the lmTer surfaces and at the line of cont a ct between the flaps
a nd flap skirts .
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The lift and drag charac ter is tics of the NACA 28-(50)(03)-( 50)(03)
airfoil with the drooped-nose and plain flaps deflected
as l ow -dra3 -c ontrol flaps w'ere obtained at a Reynolds number
6
of 2 . 1 x 10 in the Langley two-dimensional low-turbulence tunnel.
6 NACA RM No . L6K22
'1'he air foil lift, dras, and pitching moment "lere measur ed
and corre c ted to f r ee-air conditions by the methods descr i bed
i n r efer ence 1 .
Lift mea.surements of the models with the fla:ps neutr al, with
and wi thout model end plates , (figs . 2 and J) indicated that t he
model end plates had no si~nificant effect on the measur ed
char a c teristics.
The lift~ctITve slopes are 0.097 and 0.090 for the 6- and
10 -percent '-thick airfoils, respectively. Because the air '-flow
cOl1di -::'j,O!lS ar01md the leading edge of b oth circular -erc airfoils
are probably very nearly alike throup;h the complete range of ' angles
, of attack, the thicker '00una.ar~r layer of the 10 -percent, -thick
airfoil caused the decrease in the lift-curve slope.
The maximum sec tion lift coef~ic';'ents of the 6·· and 10 -percent -
thick a irfoils increased as t he 0 .20 -chord. plain flap was deflected.
The values of the maxj.mun lift coefficients (fig . 5) for bot h
air.i oils we r e su.bs -:'antially equivalent at corre spond.ing flap
deflections , but the angl es of attack f or maximum lift decreased
as the flaps ,Ter e deflected .
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The sectlon lift char acteristics of the tIm ai r foils with I
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the drooped-nose and plain flaps deflected 30 and 50 , respec-
6
ti vely, obtained at Reynolds nurubers of 3)( 10 6 , 6 )< 10 , and.
6
9 x 10 are presented in figure 11 . At Re~~olds numbers between
6 6
3 X 10 and 9 x 10 tl1e data (fig. ll(a)) show no appreciable
scale effect on the maximum l:Lft coefficlent of the 6 -percent-
thick airfoil. In the case of the J.O -percent thick a:irfoil
(fig . ll(b)), however some adverse scale ef fect is indicated in
the maximum lift coefficient at Reynolds numbers be t ween 3 x 10 6
and 6 x 10 6 . Similarly, some e.dverse scale effect (fig . 9(C))
is indicated in the maximum lift coefficient at Re~101d8 number s
6
between 3 x 10 6 and 9 x 10 with the drooped-nose and plain
0 0
flap", deflec ted 36 and 60 , respectively. At Reynolds numbers
above 9 x 10 , however, the rr~ximum section lift coefficient of
6
this combination remained approximately constant.
CONCLUSIONS
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NACA RM No. L6K22 11
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REFERENCES
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