Riblets: Reducing Drag and Ice Called ‘riblets’, these microstructures, which mimic the texture of shark skin, are tiny, parallel grooves, often just tens of micrometers deep, that guide the flow of ...
Delta Air Lines is exploring a “shark skin” aircraft coating designed to reduce drag by testing the technology on some of its Boeing 767s. The Atlanta-based carrier said on 9 April that it added ...
Credit: JAXA Japanese LCC Zipair Tokyo, a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan Air Lines (JAL), has begun operating a Boeing 787-8 with a drag-reducing riblet coating applied to areas of the fuselage.
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