Test Capabilities

Throughout its distinguished history, the ARA Experimental Aerodynamics Department has been at the forefront of developing wind tunnel test capabilities to meet the technically challenging requirements posed by the ever evolving aerospace industry; both for  Civil Aircraft and Business Jets and  Military Aircraft and Stores. These challenges have been wide and varied;  the ability to achieve drag repeatability to within one drag count for different test entries of a civil aircraft; the simulation of the release of a fuel tank from a fighter aircraft; the accurate representation of the effects of an installed propeller; the efficient measurement of dynamic data in a military aircraft diffuser; the use of roughness bands to simulate higher Reynolds number flows; the demand to gather ever increasing amounts of data faster and faster; the measurement of the effects of detailed geometic changes on rear fuselage and empennage flow fields.  These are just a few of the catalogue of examples that could be quoted. On each occasion, ARA has risen to the challenge to deliver our Customer's requirements in full: through a combination of innovation, determination to have a thorough understanding of the simulation capability being developed and a unified pride and hard work ethic.