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Article: Recent findings from X.Y. Da and co-authors highlight research in aircraft.(Report)
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- Journal of Transportation
- Article date:
- November 21, 2009
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According to a study from Beijing, People's Republic of China, "The use of aircraft to measure the electric field in clouds has been ongoing for several decades to study electrification mechanisms of clouds. However, the measurements have been problematic partially due to corona emissions at sharp metallic points."
"The demand for reliable, robust, and precise measurements requires the study of the corona effect in theory rather than based on uncertain measurements. By using numeric studies of the TF-1 unmanned air vehicle employing four electric field mills, problems caused by wing-tip corona emissions are presented in this paper. The wing-tip corona current ...