25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-P1.2

DESIGN AND TESTING OF A MODEL WING SECTION FOR A HUMAN POWERED AIRCRAFT

P. Mardanpour, W. R. Krüger, H. Haddadpour*, D. Hoffmann
DLR, Germany; *Sharif Univ. of Technology, Iran

Keywords: aeroelasticity, human powered aircraft, light-weight wing, LCO

Human powered aircraft (HPA) are of high aspect ratio, very low weight, and are consequently equipped with very flexible wings. At the DLR Institute of Aeroelasticity, Germany, a scaled wing section based on an HPA is built and tested to explore linear and non-linear aeroelastic effects of the design.

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