In autumn 2024 and May 2025, the Institute of Aeroelasticity had the opportunities to conduct a ground vibration test on two flying wing gliders. As similar as the aircraft are in terms of their ...

Boeing engineer Pio Fitzgerald sat keenly alert in the cockpit of a 747-8 jumbo jet as veteran test pilot Jerry Whites maneuvered the plane at 31,000 feet to start the wingtips fluttering. This ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract THIS paper presents some further developments of the method of generalized coordinates in flutter analysis, a method which has been described ...

A 1/4-scale F-16 flutter model tested numerous "stores" configurations--bombs, missiles, fuel tanks--in the world's premier flutter testing facility, the Transonic Dynamic Tunnel at NASA's Langley ...