{"id":9648,"date":"2010-03-26T12:29:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T12:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/why-flutter-is-a-4-letter-word-for-pilots\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T12:29:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T12:29:14","slug":"why-flutter-is-a-4-letter-word-for-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/why-flutter-is-a-4-letter-word-for-pilots\/","title":{"rendered":"Why &#8220;Flutter&#8221; Is a 4-Letter Word for Pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/autopia\/2010\/03\/flutter-testing-aircraft\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29'>Why &#8220;Flutter&#8221; Is a 4-Letter Word for Pilots<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><em>Wired<\/em> follows up its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/autopia\/2010\/03\/a-look-inside-the-brains-of-boeing-flight-test\/\" target=\"_blank\">coverage of flutter testing of the 787<\/a> with a nice article explaining <a title=\"Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aeroelastic_flutter#Flutter\" target=\"_blank\">flutter<\/a> and its impact on structures:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Flutter phenomena are seen when vibrations occurring in an aircraft match the natural frequency of the structure. If they aren\u2019t properly damped, the oscillations can increase in amplitude, leading to structural damage or even failure. A similar problem occurs in bridges and brought down the <a title=\"YouTube video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw\" target=\"_blank\">Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why &#8220;Flutter&#8221; Is a 4-Letter Word for Pilots Wired follows up its coverage of flutter testing of the 787 with a nice article explaining flutter and its impact on structures: Flutter phenomena are seen when vibrations occurring in an aircraft match the natural frequency of the structure. If they aren\u2019t properly damped, the oscillations can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/why-flutter-is-a-4-letter-word-for-pilots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why &#8220;Flutter&#8221; Is a 4-Letter Word for Pilots&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}