“Think of an airplane as a great body with its end structures (wings, horizontal tail
surfaces, vertical tail surfaces) that could have the possibility to change their shape as
they had internal nerve endings and muscles ...”
The FW-UNIT-1 on the test bench for the
measurements on trailing edge of the Skin 1
(the downward deformation of the skins of the
trailing edge is clearly visible in the figure)
The FW-UNIT-1 on
the test bench for
measurements on
the leading edge of
the Skin 2
(some control
points position are
clearly visible in the
image)
Measurement of Future Wing Unit displacements
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