Stereo photogrammetry was used to measure the elastic bending and twist of a three-bladed rotor in forward flight in the NASA Langley 14-by 22-Ft Subsonic Wind Tunnel. The rotor was imaged from below by two cameras mounted at windows of a large turntable in the floor of the test section. At each test condition, the turntable and cameras were rotated and the cameras were triggered to allow measurements over a range of blade azimuth angles. Retro-reflective targets were applied along the leading and trailing edges of the lower surface of each blade. Image blur due to blade motion was minimized by illuminating the targets with high-intensity LED flash lamps mounted next to each camera. The cameras were re-calibrated at each angular position of the turntable using the positions in each image of retro-reflective targets on the ceiling of the test section whose spatial coordinates had been very accurately measured. The blade displacement measurements yielded elastic bending and twist along each blade as functions of blade azimuth, thrust coefficient, and advance ratio, all at a constant rotor shaft angle. In addition, the measurements produced estimates of the rigid-body blade pitch, flap, and lag angles.


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    Title :

    Blade Displacement Measurements of a Rotor in Forward Flight in the Langley 14-by 22-Foot Wind Tunnel


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    Conference:

    AIAA SciTech Forum and Exhibition ; 2021 ; Virtual, US


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    Conference paper


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    Language :

    English




    BLADE DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENTS OF A ROTOR IN FORWARD FLIGHT IN THE LANGLEY 14- BY 22-FT WIND TUNNEL

    Schairer, Edward T. / Heineck, James T. / Spooner, Hannah R. et al. | TIBKAT | 2021


    Blade Displacement Measurements of a Rotor in Forward Flight in the Langley 14- by 22-Ft Wind Tunnel

    Schairer, Edward T. / Heineck, James T. / Spooner, Hannah R. et al. | AIAA | 2021




    Langley Field wind tunnel apparatus

    Bacon, D L | NTRS | 1922