NASA Completes First Flight of Laminar Flow Scaled Wing Design
11 Feb 2026, 23:35 GMT
By Dede Dinius
Topic: Advanced Air Vehicles Program
Source URL: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-completes-first-flight-of-laminar-flow-scaled-wing-design/
NASA completed the first flight test of a scale-model wing designed to improve laminar flow, reducing drag and lowering fuel costs for future commercial aircraft. The flight took place Jan. 29 at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, using one of the agency’s F-15B research jets. The NASA-designed, 40-inch Crossflow Attenuated Natural Laminar Flow (CATNLF) wing model was attached to the aircraft’s underside vertically, like a fin. The flight lasted about 75 minutes, during