21st Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 13-18 September, 1998
Paper ICAS-98-5.7.3

FATIGUE AND DAMAGE TOLERANCE SUBSTANTIATION OF THE GALAXY EXECUTIVE JET AIRCRAFT

Granot Z., Brot A., Afnaim S.
Israel Aircraft Industries, Israel

Keywords: fatigue, damage tolerance, galaxy executive jet aircraft

The paper describes the on-going program for the fatigue and damage-tolerance substantiation of the new Galaxy wide-body executive jet aircraft. An outline is given of the analytical and experimental work which is being conducted in order to meet the fatigue and damage-tolerance substantiation requirements.

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