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Old February 18th 06, 06:50 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Wing Bending Oscillation

jcarlyle wrote:

On my ASW-19B's airworthiness test report there's an entry for "rate of
wing bending oscillation". Two questions:

1. Why would a pilot want to know this frequency? Flutter prevention?
Attachment integrity?

2. How would he go about obtaining it? Accelerometer and frequency
counter? Stopwatch?


1. Quick control of structure integrity.

2. Grab one wing tip and move it up and down. Count number of
oscillations vs. time. I'm sure you could build something complicated to
get the same result.

Stefan