Gust Loads on Aircraft

Gust Loads on Aircraft
Author: Frederic M. Hoblit
Publisher: AIAA
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1988
Genre: Airplanes
ISBN: 9781600860607

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A Flight Investigation of the Effects of Compressibility on Applied Gust Loads

A Flight Investigation of the Effects of Compressibility on Applied Gust Loads
Author: Earle T. Binckley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1949
Genre: Airplanes
ISBN:

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Two jet-propelled airplanes were flow at different speeds in rough air to investigate the effects of compressibility on applied gust loads at Mach numbers up to 0.68. The results indicated that no compressibility correction to the slope of the lift curve was necessary.

Gust-load and Airspeed Data from One Type of Four-engine Airplane on Five Routes from 1947 to 1954

Gust-load and Airspeed Data from One Type of Four-engine Airplane on Five Routes from 1947 to 1954
Author: Walter G. Walker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 642
Release: 1955
Genre: Acceleration (Mechanics)
ISBN:

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This paper presents the results of an analysis of approximately 100,000 hours of V-G data from one type of four-engine civil transport airplane to determine the magnitude and frequency of occurrence of the gust loads and gusts. The data were obtained during routine operations from 1947 to 1954 on five different routes. The normal accelerations for each of the five operations may be expected to exceed the value corresponding to the limit-gust-load-factor increment, on the average, twice (once positive and once negative) within the range of 5,000,000 to 22,300,000 flight miles. A derived gust velocity of 50 feet per second was exceeded twice within the range of 600,000 to 1,900,000 flight miles. The gust loads of the present operations were less than the loads experienced by other four-engine civil transports previously investigated, but the differences are not significant. The present data indicated only small differences due to seasonal effects and different operational utilization.

A Flight Investigation of an Automatic Gust-Alleviation System in a Transport Airplane

A Flight Investigation of an Automatic Gust-Alleviation System in a Transport Airplane
Author: Paul A. Hunter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 98
Release: 1961
Genre:
ISBN:

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A flight investigation has been conducted of an automatic gust-alleviation system designed primarily to improve riding comfort in rough air. The gusts were sensed by a vane located on a boom ahead of the airplane. The wing flags moved in response to the vane in such a way as to counteract the change in wing lift due to the gust and a portion of the elevator moved to counteract pitching moments due to flap deflection. In the final configurations, inboard portions of the wing flaps also moved in such a way as to counteract the change in angle of attack at the tail due to the gust. The result indicate alleviation of normal acceleration of up to about 60 percent at the natural frequency of the airplane (0.6 cycle per second) and about 40 percent at 2 cycles per second. A further increase in riding comfort was achieved by a simultaneous alleviation of pitching velocity. For this particular airplane, gusts having frequencies greater than 1.5 cycles per second at a speed of 130 knots had little effect on riding comfort. Brief tests were also made of a configuration intended for reducing structural loads and of a configuration utilizing an accelerometer as the gust sensor. The gust alleviation capabilities of these configurations were somewhat less than that of the optimum configuration with vane-type gust sensor.

Abstracts of Masters' Theses

Abstracts of Masters' Theses
Author: Ohio State University. Graduate School
Publisher:
Total Pages: 584
Release: 1956
Genre: Dissertations, Academic
ISBN:

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NACA Wartime Reports. Series L.

NACA Wartime Reports. Series L.
Author: Philip Donely
Publisher:
Total Pages: 6
Release: 1940
Genre: Airplanes
ISBN:

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In the design of aircraft for the loads due to gusts encountered in flight, it is assumed that the gust is normal to the flight path of the airplane. The statistical data on which the design of aircraft for gust loads is based has been obtained for level flight and the gusts considered are vertical. When the flight path is vertical, as it is in some cases, the critical gust is horizontal and the question arises as to the relative magnitude and frequency of the vertical and horizontal gusts in the atmosphere.