Transonic Dynamics Tunnel Aeroelastic Testing in Support of Aircraft Development

Abstract

Historical Perspective on Aeroelasticity A LTHOUGH this paper is about the NASA Langley ResearchCenter’s Transonic Dynamics Tunnel, to a very large extent the TDT is about aeroelasticity. To this end, an historical perspec-tive on aeroelasticityis offered as a method of introducing the TDT