NIAR Conducts Full-Scale Fuselage Drop Test For Aircraft Safety

November 12, 2021
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WICHITA—Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) has conducted a full-scale fuselage drop test using anthropomorphic test dummies and post-mortem human passengers inside a Challenger 601 fuselage to validate advanced virtual engineering models of the same test set...

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