Dynamic Ground Effect for a Cranked Arrow Wing Airplane. Meeting Paper AIAA-1997-3649 Research Engineering, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
Curry, Robert E. (1997) Dynamic Ground Effect for a Cranked Arrow Wing Airplane. Meeting Paper AIAA-1997-3649 Research Engineering, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.
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Abstract
Flight-determined ground effect characteristics for an F-16XL airplane are presented and correlated with wind tunnel predictions and similar flight results from other aircraft. Maneuvers were conducted at a variety of flightpath angles. Conventional ground effect flight test methods were used, with the exception that space positioning data were obtained using the differential global positioning system (DGPS). Accuracy of the DGPS was similar to that of optical tracking methods, but it was operationally more attractive. The dynamic flight-determined lift and drag coefficient increments were measurably lower than steady-state wind-tunnel predictions. This relationship is consistent with the results of other aircraft for which similar data are available. Trends in the flight measured lift increments caused by ground effect as a function of flightpath angle were evident but weakly correlated. An engineering model of dynamic ground effect was developed based on linear aerodynamic theory and super-positioning of flows. This model was applied to the F-16XL data set and to previously published data for an F-15 airplane. In both cases, the model provided an engineering estimate of the ratio between the steady-state and dynamic data sets.
| EPrint Type: | Other |
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| Keywords: | F-15 aircraft, F-16XL aircraft |
| Subjects: | Aircraft/Project: F-16XL Aircraft/Project: F-15 |
| ID Code: | 1323 |
| Deposited On: | 12 Febuary 2007 |
| Additional Information: | 17 pages. AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 11-13, 1997. |
