Flight testing and Race car testing - a short abstract
Hello Everybody, Flight Testing is a very extensive and demanding phase of development of an Aircraft. There is no way to see if the predicted models of the Aircraft used at development stages of the aircraft is accurate unless you perform Flight Testing. Before the construction of the prototype, data gathered from simulations (Computational Fluid Dynamics, simulations of 6 degrees of freedom of aircraft, etc), wind tunnel testing, bibliography and isolated system testing is all that the Engineering team has to predict how the Aircraft will behavior when operating. Fig. 1 - An Aircraft properly instrumented for Flight Testing However, there must be flight testing to get the real data of the aircraft, in order to refine/update aircraft models and simulations. This is possible due to planned aircraft maneuvers and the extensive use of instrumentation at the aircraft. Instruments like DGPS, accelerometers, rate gyros, anemometric system, instrumented flight control system, etc, must...