Recent Experiences With Flutter Failure of Sweptback, Tapered Wings Having Outboard, Partial-Span Spoiler Controls
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"During the course of an investigation by the Langley Pilotless Aircraft Research Division regarding the effectiveness of spoilers and ailerons on sweptback tapered wings, it was necessary to test a given control configuration on wings of varying degrees of stiffness. In the process of conducting these tests, repeated wing failure was experienced with the weaker wing-spoiler configurations, whereas no failure occurred with any of the wing-aileron models. An investigation which was conducted by …
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Date:
October 5, 1953
Creator:
Strass, H. Kurt & Marley, Edward T.
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