A-4F Blue Angel Flight Usage Data 1974-1975

Abstract

This report provides flight usage data collected and used to calculate/monitor structural fatigue life expended on individual Blue Angel aircraft and presents flight environmental data which were used to establish full scale fatigue test requirements. A total of 4386.0 hours of counting accelerometer data (recorded on a flight by flight basis) and 436.0 hours of oscillograph data (normal acceleration, airspeed, and altitude data) were processed and are presented. Load rate spectra developed from this data have application in fatigue life calculations/testing and in the identification of extreme or excessive trends detrimental to prolonging fatigue life.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 30, 1976
Accession Number
ADA032351

Entities

People

  • G. A. Bohannon
  • K. I. Leikach

Organizations

  • Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Airplanes
  • Altitude
  • Calibration
  • Fatigue Life
  • Fatigue Tests (Mechanics)
  • Flight
  • Galvanometers
  • Identification
  • Instrumentation
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Naval Aviation
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Mathematics or Statistics