Automation and verification of Ankara wind tunnel

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Katırcı, Argün

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All the operational and measurement systems of Ankara Wind Tunnel was modified to operate automatically under the control of a central computer system programmed using the Lab View programming language. A cruciform air-to-air missile with triangular canard control and a trapezoidal wing model was tested by a 35mm diameter internal balance at Mach 0.2 and data was compared with the test data of the same model’s test that was performed at NASA Langley Research Center.

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Aeronautics.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607692/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/16104

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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A. Katırcı, “Automation and verification of Ankara wind tunnel,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2006.