Water ballast loading on sailplanes

Authors

  • Wieslaw Stafiej The City College of the City University of New York

Keywords:

Design, Structures, Safety

Abstract

It is a common practice of to-day to use the water ballast for improvement of the sailplane performance...  The water ballast produces an increment of loadings if the proof load factor of glider remains in the same level for ballast and no-ballast configurations; it is necessary to examine the loading increment for ballast configuration in structural analysis of glider sets....

Author Biography

Wieslaw Stafiej, The City College of the City University of New York

http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~hindman/sumvitae.pdf

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Published

2017-11-28

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