ELEVATOR-FREE NEUTRAL POINT

It is evident from the preceding comment that the NP of a tailed aircraft when the el­evator is free is given by (2.3,23) as

ELEVATOR-FREE NEUTRAL POINT(2.6,10)

Alternatively, we can derive the NP location from (2.6,5b), for we know from (2.3,5) that

ELEVATOR-FREE NEUTRAL POINT

ELEVATOR-FREE NEUTRAL POINT Подпись: Ф) Подпись: (2.6,11)

(a)

Since CmSe is of different form for the two main types of aircraft, we proceed sepa­rately below.