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Damped oscillation
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Undamped oscillation
Subsidence
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Neutral stability
The change in the angle of attack of the airplane could be due to:
While producing lift a wing induces an upwash and downwash. Behind the wing at distances
where the tail is located, the downwash angle (fb) is approximately twice of c/4.
Tail may be in the wake of the wing. If the tail lies within the wake of the wing, then
the dynamic pressure on the tail will be lower than the free stream dynamic pressure.
iii. Explain limitation of cg
iv. Advantage/disadvantage of canard on longitudinal stability
When the horizontal stabilizer is behind the wing it is called conventional tail configuration.
The lift produced by the wing has not only to balance the airplane weight but also the
If a control surface is located ahead of the wing it is called canard. A canard, being ahead of
c.g., has destabilizing contribution to Cm. airplanes which neither have a horizontal tail nor