The main purpose of this study was to determine the basic aerodynamic characteristics of the airliner Tu-154M at the wide range of the overcritical angles of attack and sideslip angles, i.e. α = −900° ÷ 900° and β = −900° ÷ 900°.
Wind tunnel tests of the Tu-154M aircraft model at the scale 1:20 were performed in a low-speed wind tunnel T-3 by using a six-component internal aerodynamic balance. Several model configurations were also investigated.
The results of the presented studies showed that at the wide range of the overcritical angles of attack and sideslip angles, i.e. α = −900° ÷ 900° and β = −900° ÷ 900°, the Tu-154M aircraft flap deflection affected the values of the drag and lift coefficients and generally had no major effect on the values of the side force and pitching moment coefficients.
The model vibration which was the result of flow separation at high angles of attack was the wind tunnel test limitation.
Studies of the airliner aerodynamic characteristics at the wide range of the overcritical angles of attack and sideslip angles allow assessment of the aircraft aerodynamic properties during possible unexpected situations when the passenger aircraft is found to have gone beyond the conventional flight envelope.
There are no social implications of this study to report.
The presented wind tunnel test results of the airliner aerodynamic characteristics at overcritical angles of attack and sideslip angles is an original contribution to the existing not-too-extensive database available in the literature.
Experimental studies of airliner aerodynamic characteristics at overcritical angles of attack
Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology ; 96 , 1 ; 27-33
2024-02-06
7 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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