A Non-Linear Solution to a Tab-Aileron Flutter Problem

Abstract

In a decade when aircraft design procedures involve analyses which display ever increasing accuracy to satisfy growing operational demands, it is not surprising that the boundaries of compromise rapidly converge upon the envelope of acceptability. A finished aircraft becomes the unique solution to a well-defined design problem–or what is even more frightening, it becomes a solution to a unique problem. If the problem changes after the solution has been produced… c'est la vie.