AIM 2 Advanced - Flight Testing Workshop

Abstract

Making new advanced optical measurement techniques that have their roots in wind tunnel or laboratory research, applicable to time and cost efficient flight testing seems to be a very long journey. Even if some of these non-intrusive measurement techniques are still standard methods in wind-tunnel testing it has to be proofed again, that they are able to deliver reliable measurement results under flight testing conditions. Although the benefit of the optical measurement to get a lot more of information within one single image and over a bigger area is obvious, often researchers and flight test engineers are afraid of their application and utilise classical sensor measurements only. Therefore, about more or less seven years ago the first EC project “Advanced In-flight Measurement Techniques” (AIM) was launched. Researchers and specialists proofed the basically feasibility of the application of their non-intrusive measurement techniques to industrial flight testing. Several flight and ground tests on small aircraft as well as on huge transport aircraft and helicopters have been performed successfully. The book “Advanced In-Flight Measurement Techniques” (ISBN 978-3-642-34737-5) published by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg in 2013, gives a good impression about the achievements of AIM.