Airplane stability theory was born at the end of the XIX century and matured around 100 years ago, when airplanes were hardly controllable yet. The success and safety of flights in the pioneer years depended upon largely unknown stability and control characteristics. Understanding the modes of airplane motion has been of paramount importance for the development of aviation. The contributions made by a few scientists in the decades preceding and following the first flight by the Wright brothers set the concepts and equations that, with minor notation aspects, have remained almost unchanged till present day.
The birth of airplane stability theory
2014-07-01
9 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
The birth of airplane stability theory
Online Contents | 2014
|The birth of airplane stability theory
Tema Archive | 2014
|NTIS | 1967
|Tema Archive | 1998
|Diagrams of airplane stability
Engineering Index Backfile | 1920
|