Principal investigator Bill Lokos, left, and test conductor Larry Hudson reviewed the test checklist prior to initiating the airbag lift of the G-III aircraft in preparation for loads testing in NASA Armstrong's Flight Loads Lab.
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Principal investigator Bill Lokos, left, and test conductor Larry Hudson reviewed the test checklist before initiating the airbag lift of the G-III aircraft to prepare for loads testing in NASA Armstrong’s Flight Loads Lab. The airbags helped isolate the airframe from any potential influence of the landing gear on strain-gage data. 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 Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge (ACTE) research flights.
April 2, 2014
NASA Photo / Ken Ulbrich