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Hachiouji-shi
20th May 2006, 04:46
What is the NACA airfoil type for the 737 classic and the 747-400 ?
You are asking some interesting but strange questions these days, are you looking at this from a pilots, engineers or flt simmers point of view?
Mutt
spannersatcx
20th May 2006, 10:57
NACA airfoil type
Not sure what that is but there is a NACA duct on the 744!
Spannersatcx
The National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) defines airfoil sections using a numbering system. I guess that the original question wants to know what type of wing is used on the B737/747.
Mutt
spannersatcx
20th May 2006, 15:52
Guess they make Ducts as well!!:ouch:
Here's some info on a NACA duct, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NACA_duct which is fairly straight forward as it talks about the Pack ram air inlets.
If you look up NACA wing you better ask Joe Sutter as it's all engineering talk. http://www.geocities.com/vienna/2616/node57.html
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=RNWE,RNWE:2006-18,RNWE:en&q=NACA+wing
SMOC
XPMorten
21st May 2006, 09:23
Boeing does not use NACA airfoils on the wings as far as I know.
Maybe on the horizontal and vertical stabilizer.
Cheers,
M
http://www.b737.org.uk/aerofoil.gif
Hachiouji-shi
22nd May 2006, 05:07
Thank you so much.
Brian Abraham
22nd May 2006, 05:23
Boeing 737-200 Root BAC 449/450/451, Tip BAC 442
Boeing 747-400 Root BAC 463 to BAC 468, Tip BAC 469 to BAC 474
Check out http://www.ae.uiuc.edu/m-selig/ads/aircraft.html
Mutt