Calculated Responses of a Large Sweptwing Airplane to Continuous Turbulence with Flight-test Comparisons

Calculated Responses of a Large Sweptwing Airplane to Continuous Turbulence with Flight-test Comparisons
Author: Floyd V. Bennett
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Total Pages: 36
Release: 1960
Genre: Airplanes
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Summary: Calculated responses of symmetrical airplane motions, wing deformations, and wing loads due to continuous turbulence are shown to compare favorably with available flight-test results. These calculated responses are based on random-process theory, five degrees of freedom, lifting-surface aerodynamics, and one-dimensional turbulence. Of the five degrees of freedom used only three, rigid-body translation and pitch modes and the first wing bending mode, are shown to contirbute significantly to the airplane responses over the frequency range considered (0 to 2 cps). Bending-moment amplification factors are presented in order to show the effects of dynamic aeroelasticity. These effects are found to increase the response by 35 to 115 percent, depending upon the spanwise station.

NASA Technical Paper

NASA Technical Paper
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Total Pages: 746
Release: 1979
Genre: Astronautics
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NASA Technical Note

NASA Technical Note
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Total Pages: 462
Release: 1972
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Evaluation of Effects of High-altitude Turbulence Encounters on the XB-70 Airplane

Evaluation of Effects of High-altitude Turbulence Encounters on the XB-70 Airplane
Author: Ronald J. Wilson
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Total Pages: 92
Release: 1971
Genre: Atmospheric turbulence
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A turbulence response investigation was conducted with the XB-70 airplane. No special turbulence penetration techniques, speeds, or other restrictions were specified for the investigation, nor were any flights made solely to obtain turbulence data. During 79 flights, turbulence was encountered, and recorded on a VGH recorder, 6.2 percent of the total flight distance at supersonic speeds above an altitude of 12,192 meters (40,000 feet). Geographical locations are given for selected turbulence encounters. For 22 flights the airplane was instrumented to measure true gust velocities and the structural acceleration response to turbulence. The turbulence intensities measured were very low in comparison with those measured at high altitudes in other investigations. Acceleration response spectra, frequency response transfer functions, and coherence functions were computed from three turbulence encounters at Mach numbers of 0.88, 1. 59, and 2.35. Results are compared with calculated studies. Frequencies from the vertical and lateral structural modes, dominant in the airplane acceleration responses, were compared with the natural frequencies of the human body in the vertical and lateral directions.

NASA Technical Report

NASA Technical Report
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Total Pages: 540
Release: 1964
Genre: Aerodynamics
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