Loads Lab technician Ted Powers positioned a load cell atop a hydraulic jack beneath the wing of NASA’s G-III research aircraft in preparation for loads testing in NASA Armstrong's Flight Loads Lab.
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Project: Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge (ACTE)
Loads Lab technician Ted Powers positioned a load cell atop a hydraulic jack beneath the wing of NASA’s G-III research aircraft 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