The Gulfstream G650 reached Mach 0.995 Gulfstream Aerospace announced Aug 26. The ultra-long-range, ultra-large-cabin achieved the speed during flutter testing, which evaluates an aircraft’s damping ...
Gulfstream announced today that its ultra-long-range, ultra-large-cabin Gulfstream G650 achieved Mach 0.995 as part of its 1,800-hour flight-test programme. The aircraft achieved this speed during ...
In autumn 2024 and May 2025, the Institute of Aeroelasticity had the opportunities to conduct a ground vibration test on two flying wing gliders. As similar as the aircraft are in terms of their ...
Flutter is a dynamic aeroelastic instability caused by interaction of unsteady aerodynamic forces with elastic vibration of the structure. At the so-called flutter critical velocity, the damping ratio ...