{"id":87,"date":"2021-11-24T03:37:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T03:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/?page_id=87"},"modified":"2021-11-26T22:10:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T22:10:36","slug":"wing-test-rig","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/?page_id=87","title":{"rendered":"Wing Test Rig"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"TellTails\"><strong>Preparation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Mazda_90-1024x562.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Mazda_90-1024x562.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Mazda_90-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Mazda_90-768x421.jpg 768w, https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Mazda_90-1536x842.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Mazda_90.jpg 1570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Figure 1:     Wollen tell-tails on board above test vehicle at 90 km\/hr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Figure 1  is a photograph of  black woollen tell-tails on a  board mounted vertically above the test vehicle at 90 km\/hr .<br>The leftmost column of  tell-tails shows a significant updraft over the front of the  vehicle. The test-rig for the wings was therefore re-positioned rearward 300mm and upward 50mm to align the wing leading edge with the second column approximately.<br>The top tell-tails should be ignored because they are strongly influenced by flow across the top of the board.  One can align the board, but only God can align the wind.<br><br>Of course this test procedure will never be perfect, but they say beggars can&#8217;t be choosers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Test Rig<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Wing_Photo-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Wing_Photo-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Wing_Photo-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Wing_Photo-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Wing_Photo-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Wing_Photo-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Figure 2:  Wings mounted on temporary body attached to car-roof rig with 4 load-sensors &amp; anemometer (under chin)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Figure 2:  shows the wings mounted on a temporary body attached to car-roof rig with 4 load-sensors &amp; anemometer.  The  4 load-sensors  are mounted on a pair of horizontal ball-bearing slides, so that all rearward drag is borne by a link at wing-level (see at position of Don&#8217;s right hand). The purpose of this arrangement is to record wing pitching moment independently  of drag. The vibration of the car has the unexpected benefit of eliminating any slide frictional bias.  Aerodynamic drag is therefore not recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/?page_id=76\" title=\"Model Wing Testing\">Results<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparation Figure 1 is a photograph of black woollen tell-tails on a board mounted vertically above the test vehicle at 90 km\/hr .The leftmost column of tell-tails shows a significant updraft over the front of the vehicle. The test-rig for the wings was therefore re-positioned rearward 300mm and upward 50mm to align the wing leading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-87","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}