Flight test polar measurements of modern sailplanes

Authors

  • Richard Johnson The City College of the City University of New York

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Design, Testing

Abstract

During recent years it appears that an insufficient ammount of accurate flight performance polar measurements have been made and published for the many new high performance sailplanes that have become available.....  It is hoped that through this paper others will be motivated to conduct flight tests of their own and that meaningful discussions and better understanding of sailplane polars will result....

Author Biography

Richard Johnson, The City College of the City University of New York

http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~hindman/sumvitae.pdf

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Published

2017-12-31

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