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  • Thumbnail for 1987 United Kingdom general election
    "Freedom" and ended with a fluttering Union Jack, the hymn I Vow to Thee, My Country (which Thatcher would later quote in her "Sermon on the Mound") and the...
    45 KB (2,594 words) - 13:27, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Airbus A330neo
    second had accumulated nearly 120h in 30 flights. Its flight envelope was fully opened including flutter and stall tests to complete powerplant calibration...
    128 KB (8,744 words) - 13:43, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Windward Performance Perlan II
    airspeeds in excess of 0.5 Mach. The aircraft was designed to minimize flutter and manage shock wave formation. The original funding for the Perlan Project...
    9 KB (715 words) - 02:45, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
    AIM-120 AMRAAM, and US aircraft often mount that missile on their wingtips to reduce wing flutter. The aircraft can carry various other AAMs, a wide variety...
    189 KB (18,307 words) - 07:21, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boeing F-15EX Eagle II
    recapitalize its fighter fleet, the USAF and Boeing began discussing the F-15X or Advanced F-15, a proposed single-seat variant based on the F-15QA to...
    59 KB (5,427 words) - 20:44, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for IAR-93 Vultur
    IAR-93 Vultur (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    prototype #003 first flew on January 23, 1977, and was lost on November 24, 1977, due to tail flutter. The left elevator broke off while in level flight at...
    16 KB (1,954 words) - 18:34, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boeing 787 Dreamliner
    14, 2010. On March 24, 2010, flutter and ground effects testing was completed, clearing the aircraft to fly its entire flight envelope. On March 28, 2010...
    245 KB (23,032 words) - 21:13, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
    Another serious design issue that the aircraft encountered was T-tail flutter. Dick Heppe, who served as the initial project aerodynamics engineer for...
    134 KB (16,344 words) - 20:07, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boeing 747
    of the 707 in October 1958, Pan Am wanted a jet 2+1⁄2 times its size, to reduce its seat cost by 30%. In 1965, Joe Sutter left the 737 development program...
    183 KB (17,953 words) - 05:56, 2 June 2024
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    Boeing 747-8 (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    "Boeing locks out 747-8 tail fuel tanks on flutter concerns". January 19, 2012. Archived from the original on January 22, 2012. Retrieved January 20,...
    117 KB (9,983 words) - 04:39, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
    on 30 May 2021. In the 2016 election, the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC or TMC) retained its majority in the Legislative Assembly with 211 seats...
    390 KB (22,451 words) - 08:41, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet
    McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    added to the wing's leading edge and stabilators to prevent an aeroelastic flutter discovered in the F-15 stabilator. The wings and stabilators were enlarged...
    138 KB (14,853 words) - 13:17, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Comac C919
    Comac C919 (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    thirteen foreign aerospace companies working on the C919. By the end of 2018, the first prototype was to enter flutter flight tests after having completed ground...
    88 KB (7,553 words) - 04:11, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lockheed P-38 Lightning
    quite rigid. At no time did the P-38 suffer from true flutter. To prove a point, one elevator and its vertical stabilizers were skinned with metal 63% thicker...
    141 KB (18,822 words) - 11:22, 31 May 2024
  • good jumpers. Flutter Ponies are ponies with tiny bodies, curly hair, longer legs than regular ponies and fairy-like wings. The Flutter Ponies may appear...
    79 KB (1,266 words) - 01:45, 25 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boeing 737 MAX
    April 9, 1967. The first MAX 8, 1A001, was used for aerodynamic trials: flutter testing, stability and control, and takeoff performance-data verification...
    184 KB (16,018 words) - 17:00, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Soko J-22 Orao
    Soko J-22 Orao (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    later, the cause of the accident was attributed to the occurrence of tail flutter.[citation needed] Construction of further pre-production aircraft was unimpacted...
    26 KB (2,983 words) - 20:43, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
    blistering" of the horizontal tails and tail booms were observed once during flutter tests of the F-35B and C in late 2011; according to the program office...
    307 KB (26,882 words) - 12:06, 3 June 2024
  • "Mizoram-ahead of polls mnf renewed call for zo unification creates political-flutter". "People of Mizoram oppose Citizenship Bill: Zoramthanga tells Modi"....
    17 KB (1,217 words) - 15:39, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for HAL Tejas
    air-to-air and air-to-sea modes at various altitudes were carried out in 2010. Flutter vibration tests were also carried out in different configurations at high...
    213 KB (18,377 words) - 14:26, 2 June 2024
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