Measurements relating to the noise source location and intensity within various frequency bands were made for an 0.75 m-chord wing/flap model installed in the Ames 7 x 10-foot wind tunnel. A directional microphone system, located outside the open-wall tunnel was scanned in a two-dimensional array of aiming points about the positive-pressure side of the model to determine the principal locations of noise production, and the intensity of each of these. It was found for the case of the flaps being differentially deflected (0 deg, 35 deg) at the half-span station that noise production was concentrated in the immediate region of the resultant surface discontinuity. For equal deflection of the halves (0 deg, 0 deg or 35 deg, 35 deg), noise was produced uniformly along the length of the gap between the wing and the flap. Simulated flap-mounting brackets generated considerable noise in certain cases, but reduced the noise in others. Trailing edge noise did not appear to be important in comparison with other sources.
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