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A type of uncontrolled divergent oscillations in an aircraft's structure, typically encountered at excessively-high speeds or if the airframe's stiffness has been reduced by previous damage. Flutter is extremely dangerous, and can rapidly cause an aircraft to break apart in flight; it has caused many fatal accidents over the years.

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Do/why don't spaceplanes suffer from flutter?

Slide 28 of the PDF is particularly interesting because it clearly shows that the biggest challenges for shuttle flutter analyses were in the transonic regime, not necessarily the hypersonic regime. … Thus, there is a ton of time, man-hours, and money that go into ensuring that these vehicles are flutter-free. …
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