Interesting Aerodynamics experiment of visualization
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Interesting Aerodynamics experiment of visualization
The first posts and pictures of this thread show an interesting Aerodynamics experiment of visualization:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-p...alisation.html
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-p...alisation.html
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Interesting? Most certainly. New? Not so much. Full size aircraft have been using wool tufts to investigate airflow over their planes for years. But these days with the ready availability of keychain and stick pen video cameras the same technique is now open to modellers like never before.
The trick to making this more useful for analysis would be to coordinate a pilot's comments with the airborne video. One way would be to start an audio recorder at the beginning of the flight and with both camera and recorder going the pilot says "Start" or something suitable and at the same time does something in the camera view at the same time. From then on the flight comments can be keyed to the airflow behaviour and some pretty interesting analysis could be done.
For example it would be fascinating to see a video of these fuselage tufts during knife edge flight in both camera high and camera low directions. Or from the tail post during either direction.
The trick to making this more useful for analysis would be to coordinate a pilot's comments with the airborne video. One way would be to start an audio recorder at the beginning of the flight and with both camera and recorder going the pilot says "Start" or something suitable and at the same time does something in the camera view at the same time. From then on the flight comments can be keyed to the airflow behaviour and some pretty interesting analysis could be done.
For example it would be fascinating to see a video of these fuselage tufts during knife edge flight in both camera high and camera low directions. Or from the tail post during either direction.