Active flutter suppression is an increasingly critical field in aeronautical engineering, addressing the challenges posed by the dynamic aeroelastic interactions in modern flexible aircraft. As ...

Gulfstream’s G500 has completed flutter testing, the culmination of 50 hr. of testing. Three flight-test aircraft have flown more than 430 hr. in more than 105 flights. The flight-test program began ...

Boeing has begun working through initial flutter testing on the 787, judged by the program leadership to be one of the early high-risk phases of the test program. The flights, which began with the ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed mandating inspections of horizontal stabiliser components on all ...

Winglet manufacturer Aviation Partners has completed a test flight with a Hawker 800 featuring a new winglet installation that was tweaked to prevent aeroelastic flutter. The original Aviation ...

G500 accrues more than 40 hour hours as the modified aircraft returned to sky to test flutter. Gulfstream’s G500 prototype resumed flight tests after being modified with a spin recovery parachute and ...