Surface shear stress measurements were made in the Flight Dynamics Laboratory's M=3 High Reynolds Number wind tunnel. The primary purpose of this research was to make shear stress measurements at very high Reynolds numbers for near adiabatic wall and zero pressure gradient conditions. The results are presented as the local skin friction coefficient versus both the momentum thickness and the length Reynolds number. The investigation was conducted on the nozzle wall at a nominal Mach number of three over the Reynolds number range of 20,000

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Heat-transfer data from four wind-tunnel experiments and two free-flight experiments with turbulent boundary layers have been examined to see whether or not they are well represented by the Reynolds analogy or a modification thereof. The heat-transfer results are put into the form of dimensionless Stanton numbers based on fluid properties at the outer edge of the boundary layer and are compared with skin-friction coefficients for the same Mach numbers and wall to free-stream temperature ratios as obtained from an interpolation of the existing skin-friction data. The effective Reynolds number is taken to be the length Reynolds number measured from the effective turbulent origin, a position which differs importantly from the leading edge of the test surface in some cases.