Aerodynamics Collection

Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Farnborough International Airshow. Note distinctive swept back wing shape

Sud Aviation Caravelle wing box structure. Diagram from: European Aeronautical Congress report Caravelle Wing Aerodynamics by Jacques Lecarme

N89HS Gulfstream G100 landing at Palm Springs (PSP/KPSP)

Balloon

Collection of different types of aircrafts illustrated

Testing an olympic bicycle in the wind tunnel of the TU Dresden, Saxony, Germany, Europe

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An African Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) takes flight in the Everglades, Everglades National Park, Florida

Sandhill Cranes at Dusk

Technician Uses Machinery
(Original Caption) Color Supplement to Feature Story "Plotting the Way"

William H. Martin Sitting in Plane
(Original Caption) And this conquered the air back in 1908. In the declining years of their life, William H

Trans-Chanel Airplane
(Original Caption) The Trans-Chanel Airplane in which Louis Bleriot made history is seen in full flight in 1909

Engine and Propellor of Bleriot's Plane
(Original Caption) Photo shows. A front view of the engine and propeller of Bleriot's trans-channe; airplane, which flew the english Channel from Cala in to Dover in 1909

Autogyro Plane
(Original Caption) Strange Autogyro planes flies from Philadelphia to Washington. Odd windmill autogyro plane lead which will fly from Philadelphia to Washington by Harold F

Tandem Motored Plane
(Original Caption) Push motor and pull motor in America's first tandem motored plane. Dayton, Ohio

Autogyro Plane
(Original Caption) Strange Autogyro plane fliers from Philadelphia to Washington. Washington D.C. Odd windmill sutogyro plane landing at Bolling Field after being flown from Philadelphia by HArold F

Autogyro Airplane Called Windmill
Harold Pitcairn Airplane

New Curtiss Condor Twin Motored Bombing Plane
(Original Caption) Mitchell Field, Long Island, USA

Military Airplane over Island
(Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

Spruce Goose Cruising
The Hughes H-4 Hercules (aka the Spruce Goose') strategic airlift flying boat, designed and built by Howard Hughes, in its graving dock, Long Beach, California, 14th May 1947

B-17G Shoo Shoo Baby Aircraft
(Original Caption) Air to air views of the B-17G Shoo Shoo Baby on a test flight over Dover AFB, Delaware. The B-17has been in restoration by the 512th military Airlift Wing for the past ten years

Maria Walliser at World Alpine Ski Championships
(Original Caption) Switzerland's Maria Walliser heads over a bump as she heads for a gold medal in the women's downhill competition at the World Alpine Ski Championships here

Zeppelin Flying over Lake
Bodensee is also known as Lake Constance and is bordered by four countries: Austria, Bavaria, Germany, and Switzerland

Illustration of a Space Shuttle
(Original Caption) Space Center, Houston, Texas: A giant fixed-wing shuttle carries a satellite to space, sends it on its way to another planet

Design of Space Stations
(Original Caption) A Look into the Future. You can make that date for a trip to the moon around 1975

Flying Saucer-Like Plane
(Original Caption) A Look into the Future. You can make that date for a trip to the moon around 1975

Front Profile of Italian Fiat V-8
(Original Caption) Lack of Grillwork and partial bumpers characterized the aerodynamic cleanliness of the two-litre Italian fiat V-8

Back Profile of Italian Fiat V-8
(Original Caption) Lack of Grillwork and partial bumpers characterized the aerodynamic cleanliness of the two-litre Italian fiat V-8

Research Scientist Examining a Model
(Original Caption) Awarded Collier Trophy

Racecar Breaks Ground Speed Record
Spirit of America is a specially designed racing car in which Craig Breedlove broke the world's ground speed record by reaching a speed of 600.601 miles per hour at the Bonneville Salt Flats

Placing Navy Aircraft in Catapult
(Original Caption) Aboard the USS Constellation, Vietnam: U.S. Navy aircraft, an RF8A Crusader photo reconnaissance jet, is being jockeyed into position on catapult #2 aboard the USS Constellation

USAF A-37 Jet
(Original Caption) Somewhere in South Vietnam. U.S. Air Force A-37 counterinsurgency aircraft in flight over Vietcong target in South Vietnam

USAF OV10A Airplane
(Original Caption) OV10A countersurgery reconnaisance aircraft in flight. The twin eingine craft is a two place tandem

USAF F-111A War Plane
(Original Caption) F-111A In Flight. Near Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada: This is the controversial and revolutionary F-111A, shown in a camouflaged condition during a recent flight here

Airforce SR71 Spy Plane Flying
(Original Caption

Afrosiyob Samarkand to Tashkent fast train, Samarqand railway station, Samarkand
Uzbekistan, Samarkand, Afrosiyob Samarkand to Tashkent fast train, Samarqand railway station

Langley Medal presented to aviator Glenn Hammond Curtiss, 1913. Glenn Hammond Curtiss was the manufacturer of the Curtiss Airplane

Model airplane, between 1910 and 1920. USA. Scientific apparatus with propellers

NASA F-8A Crusader Supercritical Wing Aircraft, 1973. Creator: NASA
NASA F-8A Crusader Supercritical Wing Aircraft, 1973

X-36 on ramp, USA, 1997. Creator: NASA
X-36 on ramp, USA, 1997. NASA Dryden Flight Fesearch Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California hosted the X-36 program, as well as providing range support for the flight tests

F-16XL with custom paint, USA, 1993. Creator: NASA
F-16XL with custom paint, USA, 1993

SR-71 over snow-capped mountains, USA, 1995. Creator: NASA
SR-71 over snow-capped mountains, USA, 1995

Dryden research aircraft fleet on ramp, USA, 1997. Creator: NASA
Dryden research aircraft fleet on ramp, USA, 1997

Model, Space Shuttle, Delta-Wing High Cross-Range Orbiter Concept, 1970s-2000s

Model, Space Shuttle, Straight-Wing Low Cross-Range Orbiter Concept, 1970s-2000s

Model, Space Shuttle, Final Orbiter Concept, 1970s-2000s. Creator: Unknown
Model, Space Shuttle, Final Orbiter Concept, 1970s-2000s. NASA used this Space Shuttle orbiter concept model in wind tunnel tests to learn about the flight characteristics of the vehicles shape

Boomerang, ca. 1969. Creator: Unknown
Boomerang, ca. 1969

Model, Wind Tunnel, Convair Space Shuttle, 2007. Creator: General Dynamics Corporation
Model, Wind Tunnel, Convair Space Shuttle, 2007. This wind tunnel 0.006 scale model set dates from the early Space Shuttle design effort

Heinkel He 162A-2 VH515
Royal Aircraft Establishment - Heinkel He 162A-2 VH513 (Werknummer 120227, Air Min 65), (marked as Red 2 of 2/JagdGeschwader 1 when it was captured)

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China, Henan Province, Luoyang, Bullet train in a railway station

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China, Shaanxi, Xian, Bullet train in railway station

Avro 594 Avian 3A / IIIA
Avro Avian with Slotted Leading-Edge Wing Slats in a Stalled Landing at Woodford During Test-Flights Date: 1928

Gotha WD-10 German single-seat naval fighter biplane designed by Oskar Ursinus, seen here with floats retracted, thus improving its aerodynamic effect

Evolution of the airfoil, 1908-1944. Creator: Unknown
Evolution of the airfoil, 1908-1944. Diagrams showing the historical evolution of airfoil sections

Richard Whitcomb with Area Rule Wind Tunnel Model, USA, April 20, 1955. Creator: Unknown
Richard Whitcomb with Area Rule Wind Tunnel Model, USA, April 20, 1955. Aviation pioneer Richard Whitcomb worked at the Langley Research Center in Virginia throughout his exceptionally prolific life

Engineers check body revolution model, Ohio, USA, July 31, 1957. Creator: Unknown
Engineers check body revolution model, Ohio, USA, July 31, 1957

Harvey Allen, US aeronautical engineer C014 / 0566
Harvey Allen (1910-1977)

Andrei Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer C013 / 9139
Andrei Tupolev (1888-1972). Portrait of the Soviet aircraft designer, Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev, standing in front of a Tu-144 airliner in Moscow, Russia

NPL Wind Tunnel Experiment
NPL wind tunnel experiments with a model LNER locomotive. Date: 1932

French Grand Prix, 1936: A new streamlined Bugatti, followed by a Riley, 1936, (1937). From Sir Malcolm Campbells Book of Famous Motorists, edited by Sir Malcolm Campbell

Over 300 miles an hour on the Salt Flats, Bonneville, Utah, 1937. From Sir Malcolm Campbells Book of Famous Motorists, edited by Sir Malcolm Campbell. [Blackie & Son Limited, London and Glasgow, 1937]

276 miles an hour on the sands at Daytona, 1937. From Sir Malcolm Campbells Book of Famous Motorists, edited by Sir Malcolm Campbell. [Blackie & Son Limited, London and Glasgow, 1937]

Where the RAF fighters score by G. H. Davis
Aerodynamic cleanliness: where the RAF fighters score during the Second World War. In very high speed aircraft small projections and even rough surface paint may seriously reduce speed

A popular new sport, the glider, by G. H. Davis
The coming vogue of the glider. A popular German sport -- motorless flight -- about to start in England

Small red and white aeroplane, side view

Red cycling helmet, side view

Radio-controlled model sailplane designed and built by t?
Radio-controlled model sailplane designed and built by the Low Speed Aerodynamics Research Association at the 1952 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at White Waltham Aerodeome on 15 June

P. j. Barthez / Pigueron
P.j. Barthez / Pigueron. Ca. 1800, Head-and-shoulders Portrait Of Scientist P.j. Barthez, Whose Locomotion Studies Served As A Precursor To The Study Of Aerodynamics

Golden Arrow 1929 A. D
Golden Arrow 1929. Driven by Major Henry Segrave in an attempt to break the World Land SpeedNational Motor Museum

Plasmatron for space research
Spaceflight research. View of a radio-frequency plasmatron (plasma generator) in a laboratory

Avionics, conceptual image C013 / 5594
Avionics, conceptual image. Computer artwork representing the electronic systems used on aircraft and spacecraft

Paper aeroplanes, artwork C013 / 5580
Paper aeroplanes flying above the clouds, computer artwork

Aerodynamics, conceptual artwork C013 / 5581
Aerodynamics, conceptual computer artwork

Nikolai Kovalev, Soviet engineer C016 / 2725
Nikolai Nilolayevich Kovalev (b.1908) Russian-Soviet engineer. Kovalev was born at Poltava and studied at the Leningrad Engineering Institute

Aircraft wing with winglet C013 / 5329
An aircraft wing with a raised wing-tip or winglet (used to improve the efficiency of winged aircraft by increasing the effective wingspan, providing extra lift, and reducing drag)

Aircraft wing with winglet C013 / 5328
An aircraft wing with a raised wing-tip or winglet (used to improve the efficiency of winged aircraft by increasing the effective wingspan, providing extra lift, and reducing drag)

Compressed air tunnel component. Technician turning the vanes for the compressed air tunnel. The hinged section (upper centre) is linked to adjacent fixed sections on the wooden jig (lower centre)

Compressed air tunnel. View of the air screw from the inside of a compressed air tunnel

Helicopter model in a wind tunnel, 1957
Helicopter model. This model of a helicopter was used to investigate the interaction between a pair of rotor blades mounted in tandem on a helicopter

Supermarine Spitfire, 1940
Supermarine Spitfire. This model of the Supermarine Spitfire plane has been inverted and suspended inside a wind tunnel for aerodynamic testing

Wind tunnel ship testing, 1952
Wind tunnel ship testing. This is a model of a liner being tested in an open jet wind tunnel. Photographed in 1952, in the Aerodynamics Division of the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK

Air flow around an aircraft
Air flow around a hovering plane. Supercomputer simulation of the air flow around a hovering Harrier fighter plane

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EDITORS COMMENTS

"Aerodynamics: Unveiling the Art of Flight" From the sleek Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Farnborough to the Sud Aviation Caravelle wing box structure, it has revolutionized aviation. It's a science that has propelled mankind into the skies and beyond. Take a trip back in time to witness the Supermarine Spitfire in action during 1940, showcasing its remarkable agility and speed. Or marvel at the Gotha WD-10 German single-seat naval fighter biplane, an engineering masterpiece ahead of its time. NASA's contributions to they can legendary. The F-8A Crusader Supercritical Wing Aircraft from 1973 pushed boundaries with its innovative design. Meanwhile, the Linear Aerospike SR-71 Experiment (LASRE) of 1997 demonstrated NASA's relentless pursuit of cutting-edge technology. The X-36 on ramp in 1997 exemplifies NASA's commitment to pushing boundaries further as they explored new frontiers in flight. And who could forget the striking F-16XL with custom paint from 1993? A true testament to both aesthetics and performance. Nature itself becomes a canvas for aerodynamic wonders as we witness an SR-71 soaring over snow-capped mountains in 1995 – a breathtaking display of power and grace combined. And let us not overlook Dryden research aircraft fleet on ramp; these vehicles were instrumental in advancing our understanding of flight dynamics throughout history. Intriguing collaborations between LASRE Pod Matting and SR-71 showcased NASA’s ability to adapt and innovate even amidst challenging circumstances during their work together in 1996. Finally, we delve into futuristic concepts like Delta-Wing High Cross-Range Orbiter Concept - a model representing space shuttle possibilities from the '70s until today - where aerodynamics transcends Earthly limits altogether.