Performance and stability flight tests of airvehicles

The aviation industry gets into more comprehensive operations since the day that Wright brothers performed the first flight with a platform having wings. The air vehicles, which are designed, developed and produced throughout the time since the first flight was performed, have transformed more capable machines. In this respect, tremendous progresses are achieved at structural strength, speed, maneuver capability, range, endurance and avionic system ability areas. This thesis was prepared for explaining test techniques and giving information about performance and stability tests of military aircraft which are operating in military activities and becoming more capable and complex systems day by day. Within this scope, data acquisition techniques, data and parameters needed, executing of test maneuver, data analyses and interpretation, and comparison of results to military standards subjects that are sub-components of complete test process were mentioned. Due to military standards were used as reference documents to interpret the results, this study concentrates on military aircraft, even though the test techniques and data analyses methods that are mentioned in this thesis can be applied to all air vehicles.