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NASA: a study to assess the effects produced by increasing weight on the aircraft
Washington, USA - An E-2 Hawkeye was chosen to analyse the consequences of rising gross weight on the airplane's performance and structural robustness
NASA started studying some aspects related to weight and structural robustness. It deals with a series of tests aimed to verify the way the flight behaviour of then aircraft change when increasing the gross weight of the structure and, for the research purposes, it was chosen to use an E-2C Hawkeye surveillance, command and control shipped plane of US Navy. Operations have already begun and, at first,...
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AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency