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    This document discusses wind tunnel spin testing of aircraft models. It begins with an introduction explaining that while spin and stall behaviors are important to verify during flight testing, wind tunnel testing provides a safer and cheaper initial method. It then discusses the purpose of spin testing to evaluate aircraft spin characteristics. Next, it describes the four phases of a spin and explains stall phenomenon. It provides details about NASA's 20-foot spin tunnel, including features that allow free flight spin testing of models. Finally, it discusses a visit to the T-105 wind tunnel at Langley Research Center, including its technical parameters and applications in investigating spin modes of aircraft.

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    This document discusses wind tunnel spin testing of aircraft models. It begins with an introduction explaining that while spin and stall behaviors are important to verify during flight testing, wind tunnel testing provides a safer and cheaper initial method. It then discusses the purpose of spin testing to evaluate aircraft spin characteristics. Next, it describes the four phases of a spin and explains stall phenomenon. It provides details about NASA's 20-foot spin tunnel, including features that allow free flight spin testing of models. Finally, it discusses a visit to the T-105 wind tunnel at Langley Research Center, including its technical parameters and applications in investigating spin modes of aircraft.

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    This document discusses wind tunnel spin testing of aircraft models. It begins with an introduction explaining that while spin and stall behaviors are important to verify during flight testing, wind tunnel testing provides a safer and cheaper initial method. It then discusses the purpose of spin testing to evaluate aircraft spin characteristics. Next, it describes the four phases of a spin and explains stall phenomenon. It provides details about NASA's 20-foot spin tunnel, including features that allow free flight spin testing of models. Finally, it discusses a visit to the T-105 wind tunnel at Langley Research Center, including its technical parameters and applications in investigating spin modes of aircraft.

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    This document discusses wind tunnel spin testing of aircraft models. It begins with an introduction explaining that while spin and stall behaviors are important to verify during flight testing, wind tunnel testing provides a safer and cheaper initial method. It then discusses the purpose of spin testing to evaluate aircraft spin characteristics. Next, it describes the four phases of a spin and explains stall phenomenon. It provides details about NASA's 20-foot spin tunnel, including features that allow free flight spin testing of models. Finally, it discusses a visit to the T-105 wind tunnel at Langley Research Center, including its technical parameters and applications in investigating spin modes of aircraft.

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    WIND TUNNEL SPIN TEST


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    BY CB.EN.U4AEE15037
    Agenda
    Introduction
    Purpose of the research
    Stall phenomenon (NOT FOOD-STALL)
    Spin
    Wind tunnel spin testing
    Visit to NASA’s 20-foot spin tunnel
    Introduction

    Airplane spin and stall behavior is an item of interest


    during design process, but it also must be verified during
    flight testing, which is costly and could be risky.
    Wind tunnel spin testing before flight tests seems to be
    safe, cheap and productive method of initial experimental
    verification of spin behavior of an aircraft.
    Spin and Stall cause 25% of disasters in general aviation.
    To evaluate aircraft spin characteristics and
    steering effectiveness in a spin based on testing of
    dynamically similar scaled model.
    Initial spin recovery capability based on TDPF (Tail
    Damping Power Factor) methodology was made
    before wind tunnel testing.
    STALL PHENOMENON
    The condition, in which the available lift is
    insufficient to balance aircraft weight is called stall.
    The stall can be a result of :-
     Insufficient aircraft speed.
    Decrease of lift after exceeding of critical angle of attack.
    Decrease of effective wing area generating lift as an effect
    of separated flow area increase.
    In fact, all the above factors influence each other and act
    simultaneously.
    Spin is a flight condition beyond a critical angle of
    attack.
    Four phases of spin can be distinguished:
    a) Spin entry
    b) Incipient spin
    c) Developed spin
    d) Spin recovery
    WIND TUNNEL SPIN TESTING
    Spin testing require a wind
    tunnel with vertical flow.
    A scale model is hanging in
    the center of the test space
    on a thin rope.
    The rope is attach to the
    model the way allowing for
    pitch angle change during
    the test.
    CASE STUDY ON T-105 WIND TUNNEL
    • T-105 is a vertical, continuous-
    operation, closed-layout wind tunnel
    with a round open test section.

    • This wind tunnel is designed to


    investigate spin modes by testing
    dynamically similar models of aircraft
    and other flight vehicles in free flight.

    SUBSONIC WIND TUNNEL


    T-105 WIND TUNNEL FEATURES :
    MAIN TECHNICAL PARAMETERS

    Stagnation Temperature Environment


    Side slip angle 0 to 360 degrees
    Nozzle Diameter 4.5 meters
    Test Section length 7.5 meters
    Flow Velocity 5 – 40 m/s
    Flow Direction Upwards
    Total Pressure Atmospheric
    Dynamic Pressure Up to 0.75 kPa
    TECHNICAL ADVANTAGES:
    • Vertical flow enabling free flight spin testing.
    • Open test section, which allow convenient access to the tested
    models.

    APPLICATIONS:
    • Investigations of spin modes and aerodynamic characteristics
    of civil and military aircraft at angles of stall.
    (e.g. Su-27, MiG-29, Il-96, Tu-204, Tu-334).

    • Development of aerodynamic layout of helicopters.


    (e.g. Mi-26, Mi-38, Mi-34, Mi-28, Ka-32, Ka-50, Ka-62).
    WELCOME TO LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER
    |NASA
    BIBLIOGRAPHY
    Books :
     Modeling flight by Joseph R. Chambers, NASA.
     Wind tunnel testing by Jakub Kulecki, General Electric
    Company.
     NASA Technical Note free-flight Investigation, Washington D.C
    June 1974.
    Online :
     badboy
     https://gizmodo.com/nasa-loves-sending-spacecraft-into-wild-
    tumbles-in-this-1730647894
     https://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/20-Foot_Spin_Tunnel
     https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/factsheets/windt
    unnels.html
    NASA Loves Sending Flights Into this Spin Tunnel….. Do You ???

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