Looking for video of glider spinning in wind tunnel

[Nyal Williams[_2_]]

A couple of years ago there was a video of a V-tailed glider spinning in a
vertical wind tunnel. I believe this was of French origin.

The model had about a six ft wingspan; the tester simply tossed into the
wind tunnel in the spinning position and this could be maintained
indefinitely.

I cannot find a link and am looking for this video. The copy I saved is
now corrupt. Any hep is appreciated.

[Piet Barber]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7QkTBKtyw8 -- not a v-Tail, not a glider, but it's a spin, it's French, it's a wind tunnel, and it spins indefinitely.


On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 12:21:52 PM UTC-4, Nyal Williams wrote:
> A couple of years ago there was a video of a V-tailed glider spinning in a
>
> vertical wind tunnel. I believe this was of French origin.
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> The model had about a six ft wingspan; the tester simply tossed into the
>
> wind tunnel in the spinning position and this could be maintained
>
> indefinitely.
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>
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> I cannot find a link and am looking for this video. The copy I saved is
>
> now corrupt. Any hep is appreciated.

[Matt Herron Jr.]

that's very cool! Glad they didn't decide to use drag chutes to stop spins though :-)

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I think it might be this one:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000609192257/http://www.onera.fr/cahierdelabo/video/hq/aleg2a_hq.mov

It's not a glider, it's an ATL (Avion Très Léger), a light French two-seater single engine aircraft with V-tail. Probably filmed at Lille (France) where there is a vertical wind tunnel.

This video used to be op the ONERA (French aerodynamics laboratory) website, but I had to look it up on the internet archive.

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Oops! Wrong link! Try this one: http://web.archive.org/web/20000831020902/http://www.onera.fr/cahierdelabo/video/hq/aleg3_hq.mov

The other one is a German flutter test.