23rd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 8-13 September, 2002, Toronto, Canada
Paper ICAS 2002-7.1.3

SECURING OF THE SAFETY AND ECONOMY OF ACROBATIC AIRPLANE SERVICE

Z. Maler
Moravan a.s., Czech Republic

Keywords: acrobatic flying development, acrobatic airplanes development, acrobatic categories, acrobatic losd spectra, fatigue life of sports aeroplanes

In this paper there are brought load spectra of acrobatic operation since 60ties till 1999. It was shown that two different kinds of "acrobatic operation" should be considered: the contests acrobatics and the training acrobatics. The school airplanes are able to fly the same "hard" acrobatics as special airplanes. As the school airplanes are used to NORMAL flying,too, their technical life is not used economical. To secure the safety and economy of school airplanes it is recommended to record load history by means of modern elestronic fatigue-meter and fly till the limit state that will be allowed by manufacturer.

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