Three airbags supported NASA’s G-III in the Armstrong Flight Loads Lab, thus isolating the airplane’s landing gear to prevent interference with strain-gage data during structural loads tests prior to initiation of flights during the Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge (ACTE) flight research project.
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Project: Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge (ACTE)
Three airbags supported NASA’s G-III in the Armstrong Flight Loads Lab, thus isolating the airplane’s landing gear to prevent interference with strain-gage data during structural loads tests prior to initiation of flights during the ACTE flight research project. 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 9, 2014
NASA Photo / Ken Ulbrich