are you looking for "boundary layer control"?

check out some of the glider manufactures about their boundary layer
control...
like http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/index-r-e.html

BT

"Sam White" wrote in message
...
Hi all,

I am Mech Eng student at Imperial College in London and I have to give a
presentation on wing design and airflow control surfaces. If anyone has
any
ideas on sites where I may be able obtain such information, doesn't need
to
be to advanced.

Regards

Sam White

...on another note, I am interested in spending some time in North
America,
either USA or Canada, after I graduate, where I plan to take flying
training. Could someone adivse me on how I would go about converting an
American licence to Euro. I am aware I may be talking rubbish, so there
is
a posibility this question is an absolute bore to most of you and maybe
even
quite irritating and so to those people I appologise.