Armstrong lead engineering tech Aaron Rumsey adjusted a rubber contact pad between the wing of NASA’s G-III and a load cell mounted atop a hydraulic jack in preparation for loads testing in NASA Armstrong's Flight Loads Lab.
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Project: Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge (ACTE)
Armstrong lead engineering tech Aaron Rumsey adjusted a rubber contact pad between the wing of NASA’s G-III and a load cell mounted atop a hydraulic jack in preparation for loads testing in NASA Armstrong’s Flight Loads Lab. The loads tests provided the data from which engineers derived wing load equations that were used to convert strain-gage signals into actual wing-loading information that the airplane would incur during the ACTE research flights.
April 4, 2014
NASA Photo / Ken Ulbrich