In the design of modern large transport aircraft, flap system has become a standard configuration, which can increase maximum wing lift and climb rate aircraft. Meanwhile, reliability always been focus point aviation industry. The interconnection strut between flaps is kind redundancy design, mitigates failure enhancing reliability. Since 1980s, aircraft manufacturers such as Airbus Boeing have...

To fly aircraft many people from various organizations have to cooperate. The justifiable strict safety requirements have led to very strict allocation of responsibilities and corresponding separation of tasks. Over the years every party has developed its own proprietary system. The resulting patchwork of systems exhibits a slow response to the current market-driven changes at increasingly unaf...

During the SALTRACE field experiment, conducted during June/July 2013, the Saharan dust transport across the Atlantic was analyzed by a set of ground based, in-situ and airborne instruments, including a 2-μm coherent DWL (Doppler wind lidar) mounted onboard the DLR Falcon 20 research aircraft. An overview of the measurements of aerosol backscatter and extinction, horizontal and vertical winds r...

the study of flight vehicle structures reveals the importance of obtaining the most suitable accuracy compatible with construction. for this purpose, several experiments were conducted at the agard institute. in this paper the results of one such experiment performed on a sample airplane wing are presented. aircraft structural engineers use several methods to model these structures. specifing h...

Formation flying techniques, demonstrated by migratory birds, have the potential to significantly save energy when two or more transport aircraft fly same route at time. In fuel-saving formations, are straight trajectories for most of For proof concept, however, how vertical and lateral maneuvers can be flown has investigated. Those investigations require a flight simulator that is equipped wit...