Our annual supplement on local health and wellness services and issues can be found inside today’s paper. It was pretty alarming, watching the heart monitor trace a crazy series of bumps and dips ...

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 ...

European researchers have used scaled aircraft demonstrators to test new concepts for lighter, larger-span wings intended to avert flutter problems. The ground vibration tests were conducted at a ...

Flutter kills. When a vibration, usually in an aircraft's wing or tail, matches the natural frequency of that structure, the results of that "flutter" can be catastrophic. If the vibration isn't ...

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 ...

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 ...

Army researchers will study whirl flutter behavior to determine the viability of new tiltrotor analysis tool NORFOLK, Va. -- After more than three years in development, a team of U.S. Army researchers ...