Aviation Pioneers Wrestled Aeroelasticity
Orville and Wilbur Wright made beneficial use of aeroelastic effects for roll control of their Flyer by using wing warping. They also were aware of the adverse aeroeleastic effects when a thin propeller’s blade under high thrust loads would partially twist to unload itself, thereby reducing the net...
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