Aerodynamic scales are a special kind of complex dynamometer for measuring the forces acting on a body moving in air or on a motionless body streamlined by a stream of air. In the latter case, the aerodynamic balance is the main device of the wind tunnel in which the specified flow is obtained. [1] Scales are arranged according to the principle of independent measurement of each component. By the number of measured components, the balance is divided into one-, two-, three-, four- and six-component. [2]
One of the first aerodynamic scales was created by A.F. Mozhaysky [3] .
Modern aerodynamic scales
Notes
- ↑ Technical Encyclopedia of 1927
- ↑ Aerodynamic scales - E.V. Mikhailovsky
- ↑ Aerodynamic experiments // Krylov V.Ya. Alexander Fedorovich Mozhaysky. - L .: Young Guard, 1951.