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Longitudinal Instability in Aircraft

The document discusses aircraft stability and control, highlighting the differences between static and dynamic instability. It explains that stability allows an aircraft to return to equilibrium after perturbations, while control enables movement between equilibrium states or into non-equilibrium states. Additionally, it covers longitudinal and lateral static stability with illustrative examples of aircraft motion in response to external forces.

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Longitudinal Instability in Aircraft

The document discusses aircraft stability and control, highlighting the differences between static and dynamic instability. It explains that stability allows an aircraft to return to equilibrium after perturbations, while control enables movement between equilibrium states or into non-equilibrium states. Additionally, it covers longitudinal and lateral static stability with illustrative examples of aircraft motion in response to external forces.

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Stability and Control
An aircraft is stable if it returns to its initial equilibrium
flight conditions when it is perturbed. There are two main
types of aircraft instability:
An aircraft with static instability uniformly departs from
an equilibrium condition

An aircraft with dynamic instability oscillates about the


equilibrium condition with increasing amplitude.

There are two modes of aircraft control: one moves the


aircraft between equilibrium states, the other takes the
aircraft into a non-equilibrium (accelerating) state.
Control is directly opposed to stability.
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Longitudinal Static Stability
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Time = 0.0
Tail Force

Aircraft encounters gust


Resulting Motion
Nose pitches up

Time = 1.0 Tail Force

Airflow Direction

Time = 2.0 Tail Force

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Lateral Static Stability
Time = 0.0
Lift Vectors
Dihedral Angle
View Downstream
Weight

Aircraft rolls
slightly to the right
Time = 1.0
Resulting
Motion
Weight

Lift Vectors

Time = 2.0 Dihedral Angle

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Weight
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