The Airborne Aero-Optics Laboratory, Recent Data
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In this paper recent in-flight aero-optical measurements on the Airborne Aero-Optics Laboratory (AAOL) will be given. Instrumentation and experimental set-up will be presented. Results of an extensive survey of the aero-optical environment at different viewing angles for both flat-window and conformal-window turrets at different subsonic and low transonic speeds, below M = 0.65, will be presented, compared and extensively discussed. The statistical analysis of wavefronts at different viewing angles will is also presented and discussed.
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تاریخ انتشار 2012