Subscale flight testing of a generic fighter aircraft

Abstract

Recent technological advances in mechatronics enhance the possibilities of utilizing subscale flight testing as a tool in the development of aircraft. This paper reports the current status of a joint Swedish-Brazilian research project aiming at exploring these possibilities. A 13% scale fighter aircraft is used as a test bench for developing methods and procedures for data acquisition. The aircraft is equipped with an instrumentation system assembled from off the shelf components as well as open source hardware and software.

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