Since the early days of aviation, designers and engineers have endeavoured to build on the successes of their predecessors with every new idea. With every advance, aviation becomes more affordable and more accessible to a wider section of the population. With this in mind, this work tested a system that could potentially provide new insights into the behaviour of the boundary layer of air moving over a wing. We designed and constructed a model wing with a boundary layer control system in the form of a conveyor belt, which we tested in a wind tunnel at different flow velocities and relatively low angles of attack. We succeeded in approximately achieving the theoretically ideal drag coefficients for our airfoil on a real wing. At certain angles of attack and speeds, we also succeeded in improving the aerodynamic efficiency.
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