Europe Eyes Subscale Testing For Novel Aircraft

Graham Warwick May 18, 2022
Royal NLR
Clean Sky 2’s baseline Scaled Flight Demonstrator is a 25%-scale Airbus A320.
Credit: Royal NLR
A model of the Airbus A320, built under Europe’s Clean Sky 2 civil aeronautics research program to validate the viability of using scaled flight testing to complement wind tunnels, has entered flight testing. The Scaled Flight Demonstrator (SFD) has begun initial qualification flight testing in...
Graham Warwick

Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.

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