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Finnish Aeronautical Engineering Abbreviations
I received a package that includes the original Finnish report for the
FAR-23-like load testing of a Fly Baby in 1977. At that time, the Finnish National Board of Aviation required formal testing of homebuilts just like production aircraft. Fortunately, the package includes a translation into English. Unfortunately, there are some terms that were apparently Finnish abbeviations/acronyms that were left untranslated. These we P.H.A.A. P.L.A.A. N.L.A.A. These terms are always the labels for a row of numbers. For instance, under "Center of Pressure" it reads: P.H.A.A. 25% P.L.A.A. 40% N.L.A.A. 25% and under "Load Factor" it says, P.H.A.A. 4.5 P.L.A.A. 4.5 N.L.A.A. 2.0 For the "Normal Chord Load," values are given for each of the three items for the Net Beam Load, the Chord Beam Ratio, the Chord Load per Inch, etc. I'm thinking that these are describing either flight conditions (at cruise, at stall, etc.) or loading conditions (forward CG, aft CG, etc.). On a couple of the tables, the three parameters have a fourth added as a row label: "Dive".... This is why I suspect the abbreviations might be for flight conditions. The question is, does anybody know the translations of the terms? Or, given the above clues, can anybody give me a good educated guess? Ron Wanttaja |
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