Boeing passed a major milestone today in the 787 Dreamliner program. Today's flight test of airframe ZA001, the first 787 to fly back in December, marks the end of flutter testing for the airplane.

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Gulfstream Aerospace has announced the Gulfstream G500 has completed flutter testing. The first G500 test aircraft, T1, performed the tests over the course of more than 50 flights. “The G500 has ...

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 ...

The first prototype of the developmental Comac C919 has completed ground tests prior to airborne flutter testing. The work on aircraft B-001A saw 22 parameters tested, focusing on the signal ...

Irkut’s SSJ-New, the successor to the Superjet 100, is undergoing aeroelasticity testing as part of the preparation for the aircraft’s maiden flight. An initial round of flutter tests was carried out ...

Boeing T-7A tail number 7002, the first to be delivered to the USAF, taking off from St Louis Lambert International Airport, Missouri, co-located with Boeing's factory. (Boeing/Eric Shindelbower) The ...

In autumn 2024 and May 2025, the Institute of Aeroelasticity had the opportunities to conduct a ground vibration test on two flying wing gliders. As similar as the aircraft are in terms of their ...

A 1/4-scale F-16 flutter model tested numerous "stores" configurations--bombs, missiles, fuel tanks--in the world's premier flutter testing facility, the Transonic Dynamic Tunnel at NASA's Langley ...