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The fundamentals of body-freedom flutter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

LL. T Niblett
LL. T Niblett*
Affiliation:
Materials and Structures Department , Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough
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Summary

The object of this paper is to uncover the nature of the destabilising coupling that is the major cause of body-freedom flutter and to see whether a simple cure for the flutter can be found. To do this frequency-coalesence theory is applied to a simple aircraft. It is shown that the aircraft is liable to flutter if it has a sweptforward wing and a positive ‘tail-off’ cg margin or a sweptback wing and a negative cg margin but a simple cure for the flutter does not appear to exist.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 90 , Issue 899 , November 1986 , pp. 373 - 377
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1986 

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