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Control and Stability of Aircraft

On January 23, 2016 · In Aerodynamics, General Aerospace

One of the key factors in the Wright brothers’ achievement of building the first heavier-than-air aircraft was their insight that a functional airplane would require a mastery of three disciplines:

Lift Propulsion Control

Whereas the first two had been studied to some success by earlier pioneers such as Sir […]

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