Recent Development of Advanced In-Flight Measurement Techniques

Abstract

Nowadays, advanced optical measurement methods for wind tunnel or laboratory applications become more and more sophisticated and relatively easy to employ, even in complex industrial experimental environments. Hence, the European research project AIM (Advanced In-flight Measurement Techniques) of the 6th Framework Program of the European Community intended to transfer the present experiences of optical deformation and flow measurement tools to flight tests in order to determine pressure distribution, thermal loads, wing and propeller deformations as well as velocity fields at real aircraft and flight Reynolds numbers. This presentation will give a brief overview about the objectives and measurement campaigns carried out by the 11 partner organisations coming from industrial enterprises and research institutions.