Summary of the main topics related to aircraft performance: level flight, climbing flight, gliding flight, maneuvering flight, load factor, turning flight, pull-up maneuver, take off, landing, range and endurance.
Static stability and control - Longitudinal stability and control with stick-fixed: contribution of the airplane parts; rear neutral point of stability - Longitudinal control - Thrust effects - Center of gravity range - Longitudinal static stability and control with stick free - Hinge moment and floating - Rear neutral point of stability with stick free - The trim-tab - Stick force and its reduction - Maneuvering flight
Latero-directional static stability and control - Contribution of the airplane parts - Thrust effects - The directional control - Lateral Stability with stick-fixed - The lateral control - Approximate equations of latero-directional motion - Directional Stability with stick-free - Stick force and ailerons balancing.
Airplane equations of motion - Axes reference systems - Euler' angles - coordinate systems transformation - Equations of motion linearization - Longitudinal and latero-directional aerodynamic derivatives. 5) Longitudinal dynamics - Characteristic equation in longitudinal plane and system eingenvalues - Longitudinal stability criteria - Phugoid and short-period modes - Lateral-directional stability criteria:spiral, divergent, dutch-roll modes - Root Locus
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