Review of Support Interference in Dynamic Tests

Abstract

Introduction T problem of support interference has, of course, existed as long as the wind tunnel. Although numerous investigations of support interference have been performed since the one reported by Per kins, very few review reports have been published. The well-known one by Whitfield only considered the effects of the support in static wind tunnel tests. In this paper, the early work on static support interference will be reviewed very briefly before going into the more complex present-day problems, i.e., dynamic support interference and the special problems associated with static and dynamic tests at very high angles of attack.