As Boeing’s 787 illustrates, airliner wings are more slender than they used to be. But as wings get slimmer in pursuit of lower drag and lighter weight, flutter becomes a greater concern. Flutter is ...

The Gulfstream G650 reached Mach 0.995 Gulfstream Aerospace announced Aug 26. The ultra-long-range, ultra-large-cabin achieved the speed during flutter testing, which evaluates an aircraft’s damping ...

Winglet manufacturer Aviation Partners has completed a test flight with a Hawker 800 featuring a new winglet installation that was tweaked to prevent aeroelastic flutter. The original Aviation ...

G500 accrues more than 40 hour hours as the modified aircraft returned to sky to test flutter. Gulfstream’s G500 prototype resumed flight tests after being modified with a spin recovery parachute and ...

The new Gulfstream family is on track for G500 certification in 2017, followed by the G600 in 2019. Gulfstream's G500 T1 flew more than 50 flights for the flutter testing campaign.