01.2 - Aircraft Design and Integrated System (Applications)
SCALED FLIGHT TESTING FOR EVALUATING DISTRIBUTED ELECTRIC PROPULSION
H. Jentink, Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre NLR, Netherlands; C. Döll, ONERA, France; P. Iannelli, CIRA, Italy; M. Hoogreef, TU Delft, Netherlands; D. Kierbel, Airbus, France
The scaled flight testing methodology is applied, first on a known aircraft configuration with jet engines and on an aircraft configuration with distributed electric propulsion through six electrically driven propellers. Especially the dynamics and control of the aircraft is studied. Results from wind tunnel tests, taxi tests and flight tests are presented.