The effect of a flexible, geared, elevator tab upon the validity of the stiffness criteria for tail-units and rear fuselages is examined. To this end, the distortions of a hypothetical, semi-rigid tail-unit under the air ...
Details are given of some of the methods of solving the flutter equations which have been programmed in Mercury Autocode at the R.A.E. Included is a method of following the variation of critical speed with a linear variation ...