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Happy Birthday NACA

Posted by Blucraft on March 3, 2015 at 4:53pm

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NACA, the precursor to NASA, was founded 100 years ago today. NACA was instrumental in furthering fundamental knowledge of airfoil theory, and created well-known families of airfoils still widely used today.

To honor the NACA legacy, we've added the NACA 4-digit airfoil series to Mach-Up in high-resolution. That's 10,000 airfoils now available to design with... for free. :)

Have your cake and eat it too. Happy Birthday!

-The Blucraft Team

Tags: 3d, cad, mach-up, naca, design
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  • Blucraft March 4, 2015 at 7:50am

    @CliffN: That's what we might call a "thin airfoil"...  :)

  • Blucraft March 4, 2015 at 7:50am

    Yeah, it's amazing what people were able to do before the time of computers. They did excellent work. We here at Blucraft have great respect for what NACA accomplished.

  • Harry March 4, 2015 at 6:11am
    Xfoil confirms with a crash that it can't draw it, you can't build it.
  • CliffN March 3, 2015 at 8:12pm

    so how thick is a NACA 0100 airfoil?

  • Harry March 3, 2015 at 7:34pm
    Cool, they did good work and did it the old fashioned way with hand fabricated models and other junk. As for the 4 digit series, there's usually a combination that can be dialed up that will come very close in performance to some magic foil whipped up somewhere else but with a fancy name. I use xfoil or used to and one of its great features is being able to analyze any 4 digit NACA foil because the 4 digits are a numbering system.
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