NACA airfoil

Profile geometry – 1: Zero-lift line; 2: Leading edge; 3: Nose circle; 4: Max. thickness; 5: Camber; 6: Upper surface; 7: Trailing edge; 8: Camber mean-line; 9: Lower surface
Profile lines – 1: Chord, 2: Camber, 3: Length, 4: Midline
A: blue line = chord, green line = camber mean-line, B: leading-edge radius, C: xy coordinates for the profile geometry (chord = x axis; y axis line on that leading edge)

NACA stands for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which was a U.S. federal agency founded in 1915 to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. It played a crucial role in advancing aviation technology, including the development of airfoils, which are the cross-sectional shapes of wings and other aerodynamic surfaces. The NACA airfoil series is a set of standardized airfoil shapes developed by this agency, which became widely used in the design of aircraft wings.


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