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"I'm flying around today and I looked out
the cockpit and I noticed my right aileron fluttering."
Is it flutter, or vibration? Isn't flutter
the result of flight surfaces responding to aerodynamic loads? And
isn't it usually destructive? Vibration is simply mechanical and, while it
could eventually cause problems due to wear and fatigue, it's not destructive
like flutter. A recent Kitplanes had a good article on
flutter.
Tom Gourley
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