21st Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 13-18 September, 1998
Paper ICAS-98-R.1.7.1


AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH TO HIGH-ORDER, NON LINEAR AIRPLANE STABILITY PROBLEMS

Campos L. M. B. C.
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal

Keywords: analytical, high-order, non linear, airplane stability

The longitudinal stability of a symmetric aircraft, Is examined beyond the well known linearisation about a steady mean state, leading to the phugold and short-period modes.


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