Flight testing of Mission Adaptive Compliant Wing

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 92-109

  Hetrick, Joel A ^a   Osborn, Russell F ^a   Kota, Sridhar ^a   Flick, Peter M ^b   Paul, Donald B ^b  

^a FlexSys Inc   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUEL SAVINGS; TRAILING EDGE FLAPS; WEIGHT SAVINGS;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FUEL ECONOMY; GEOMETRY; LAMINAR FLOW; OPTIMIZATION; SPACE FLIGHT;

WINGS;

EID: 34547547871     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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