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Tail Buffeting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

W. J. Duncan
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The subject of tail buffeting first came into prominence in this country early in 1931 when the Accidents Investigation Sub-Committee of the Aeronautical Research Committee issued their report on the accident to a Junkers monoplane at Meopham, Kent. The Sub-Committee gave it as their opinion that tail buffeting was the probable primary cause of this accident, and recommended that the phenomenon should be investigated. At this time tail buffeting (Leitwerkschutteln) was quite well known in Germany, where the low-wing monoplane, which is peculiarly susceptible to this trouble, was a popular type of aircraft; and some full-scale experiments on the subject had already been made by the Deutsche Versuchsanstalt fiir Luftfahrt. The findings of the Accidents Investigation Sub-Committee caused an intensive study of buffeting to be undertaken both in Germany and in this country, and the enquiry was also taken up in the United States at a later date. As a result of these studies tail buffeting is now quite well understood, and methods for its avoidance have been established.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 38 , Issue 278 , February 1934 , pp. 108 - 137
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1934

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