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How are aircraft wings protected against flutter - aerodynamic oscillations that can break bridges?
A wing and a bridge are both exposed to flutter, a transverse wind distorting them by resonance.
Aircraft flutter:
Aircraft flutter, source (video)
Bridge flutter:
US Tacoma-Narrows bridge collapse ...
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What is the difference between buffeting and fluttering?
As I understand, both are dynamic effects of aeroelasticity - however, what is the exact difference between buffeting and flutter?
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What is the purpose of flutter testing?
All I am aware of is that flutter testing involves the aircraft shaking violently. How is a flutter test performed and what is its purpose?
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What determines the maximum speeds for a particular aircraft?
Aircraft have three different maximum airspeeds:
VMO (maximum operating speed) - the maximum speed that the aircraft is allowed to reach during normal operations.
VNE (never exceed speed) - the speed ...
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How can engine positioning affect flutter tendency?
I understand that moving the engines towards the wingtips would increase flutter tendency, but are there any other positioning options which could affect flutter?
How about moving the engine ...
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Does every control surface need to have a counterweight?
Is it not a good idea to balance all control surfaces, no matter what they weigh?
I am building a small plane, with small control surfaces. There are many of the same type of plane flying. Most have ...
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Do aircraft designers gather real data to confirm their design (CFD, wind tunnel) data?
What tools and techniques are used to get real data test to confirm the values that are obtained by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) calculations and wind tunnel testing?
Is this standard procedure ...
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Can horizontal stabilizer trim be worked independently (each side)?
I notice most jetliners have a big trim wheel on each side of the center console. This wheel is black with white stripes, and notably turns on its own via the autopilot.
Two large trim wheels: And ...
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Combating flutter with mass distribution?
Considering aeroelastic flutter, when an eigenfrequency of the wing meets with an aerodynamic frequency, the commonly mentioned solutions make sense: avoid the convergence zone by limiting speed, or ...
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Does dynamic stability decrease with airspeed
Context: I am writing my thesis on the topic of satellite drag reduction by the means of near-specular surface scattering. The theme touches aerodynamics in some sense, but the physics are honestly ...
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