A Flight Investigation of Laminar and Turbulent Boundary Layers Passing Through Shock Waves at Full-scale Reynolds Numbers
This is a 1953 NASA technical report on flight tests of boundary layers crossing shock waves at full-scale Reynolds numbers, written for aerodynamics researchers. Its pictures are measurement plots with dense gridded backgrounds, showing pressure, shape factor H, and boundary-layer thickness against chordwise station x/c with curves labelled by Mach number. A designer might take only the graph style: fine grid paper, open circle and triangle data markers, and sparse line-and-dot charts.
