Current Status
1/15th-scale model test at DERA
- piezo flaps unsuccessful
- Evidence points to dynamic fluid loading as cause
$5 million USAF-sponsored program (led by Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems) culminating in flight test in 2003
- Approach is to identify best actuator concept:
- Better actuators for scale tests
- Pulsed fluidic injection (not synthetic jet)
- requires a high frequency response valve