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The paper describes the applications of the riblets, an interesting drag reduction device, to an aircraft. The save in terms of weight that can be achieved by a trurbopropeller-driven aircraft in a typical mission is estimated.
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This page is a summary of: Performance Improvements of a Regional Aircraft by Riblets and Natural Laminar Flow, Journal of Aircraft, January 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA),
DOI: 10.2514/1.c035445.
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