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Airfoil
Application
Example
S101 and S102
General aviation aircraft
Proprietary
S201
Cruise missile
Proprietary
S202
Tilt-wing aircraft
Proprietary
S203
Business jet
Proprietary
S401 and S402
Gyroplane
Groen Brothers Aviation Hawk 4
S601 and S602
Unmanned aerial vehicle
Proprietary
SM701
Sailplane
Cygnet
S801-S804
10- to 20-meter-diameter, variable-speed/variable-pitch, horizontal-axis wind turbine
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
S805-S808
10- to 20-meter-diameter, stall-regulated, horizontal-axis wind turbine
Phoenix Industries 7.9-meter blade
S809-S811
20- to 30-meter-diameter, stall-regulated, horizontal-axis wind turbine

Advanced Wind Turbines AWT-26

S812-S815
20- to 30-meter-diameter, stall-regulated, horizontal-axis wind turbine
S816-S818
30- to 50-meter-diameter, stall-regulated, horizontal-axis wind turbine
Zond Energy Systems Z-50
S819-S821
10- to 20-meter-diameter, stall-regulated, horizontal-axis wind turbine
   TPI Composites    9-meter blade
S822 and S823
2- to 10-meter-diameter, variable-speed/variable-pitch, horizontal-axis wind turbne
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
S824
Vertical-axis wind turbine
FloWind 21-EHD
S825 and S826
20- to 40-meter-diameter, variable-speed/variable-pitch, horizontal-axis wind turbine
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
S827 and S828
40- to 50-meter-diameter, stall-regulated, horizontal-axis wind turbine
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
S829
20- to 40-meter-diameter, stall-regulated, horizontal-axis wind turbine
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
S901-S903
Wind-turbine blade roughness study
Not applicable
S904 and S905
Cooling-tower fan
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
NASA NLF(1)-0115
General aviation aircraft
 
NASA NLF(1)-0215F
General aviation aircraft
Neico Aviation Lancair 360
NASA NLF(1)-0315
General aviation aircraft
Mooney 301
NASA NLF(1)-0416
General aviation aircraft
Swearingen SX-300
NASA NLF(1)-1015
Unmanned aerial vehicle
 
NASA/DLR NLF(2)-0415
Commuter aircraft
 

 

 
 
 
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