"High AOA and Spin testing will win you the Kinchloe Award. Flutter testing will get you killed."
(Rob Niewoehner and Mike Carriker, Associate Fellows - Society of Experimental Test Pilots)
The link below helps put a face on what it takes to prove that you've solved a flutter (or was it really limit cycle oscillation?) problem. This is tense stuff. Good on these guys!
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2016583947_inpersonfitzgerald24.html
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