The F-15B (McDonnell Douglas, St. Louis, Missouri) airplane, tail number 836 was selected to fly Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation s (GAC) (Savannah, Georgia) QuietSpike (QS) project; however, this experiment is very unique and unlike any of the previous testbed experiments. It involves the addition of a relatively long quiet spike boom attached to the radar bulkhead of the airplane. This QS experiment is a stepping stone to airframe structural morphing technologies designed to mitigate the sonic boom strength of business jets over land. Prior to flying the QuietSpike boom on the F-15B airplane, several ground vibration tests (GVT) were required in order to understand the QS modal characteristics and coupling effects with the airplane. Because of the project s intense schedule, a 'traditional' GVT of the mated F-15B QuietSpike ready-for- flight configuration would not have left sufficient time available for the finite element model update and flutter analyses before flight test.


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    Title :

    QuietSpike(TradeMark) Build-Up Ground Vibration Testing Approach


    Contributors:
    N. Spivey (author)

    Publication date :

    2006


    Size :

    3 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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