Subsonic high-lift flight research on the NASA Transport System Research Vehicle (TSRV)

Flight tests are being conducted as part of a multiphased subsonic transport high-lift research project for correlation with ground based wind tunnel and computational results. The NASA Langley TSRV 737-100 airplane is utilized to obtain flow characteristics at full-scale Reynolds numbers to contribute to the knowledge of several dominant high-lift flow issues such as boundary layer transition, confluent boundary layer development, and 3D flow separation. Recent test results obtained for a full-chord wing section including the slat, main-wing, and flap elements are presented.