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- Category: Airplane Stability and Control, Second Edition (continued)
- The First Flight Occurrences
- The 1956 Wright Field Conference
- Simplifications and Explications
- The F4D Skyray Experience
- Later Developments
- Inertial Coupling and Future General-Aviation Aircraft
- Spinning and Recovery
- Advent of the Free-Spinning Wind Tunnels
- Systematic Configuration Variations
- Design for Spin Recovery
- Changing Spin Recovery Piloting Techniques
- Automatic Spin Recovery
- The Role of Rotary Derivatives in Spins
- Rotary Balances and the Steady Spin
- Rotary Balances and the Unsteady Spin
- Parameter Estimation Methods for Spins
- The Case of the Grumman/American AA-1B
- The Break with the Past
- Effects of Wing Design on Spin Entry and Recovery
- Drop and Radio-Controlled Model Testing
- Criteria for Departure Resistance
- Vortex Effects and Self-Induced Wing Rock
- Bifurcation Theory
- Departures in Modern Fighters
- Tactical Airplane Maneuverability
- Air-to-Air Missile-Armed Fighters
- Control Sensitivity and Overshoots in Rapid Pullups
- 10.3.2 Criteria Based on Equivalent Systems
- Time Domain-Based Criteria
- Rapid Rolls to Steep Turns
- Supermaneuverability, High Angles of Attack
- The Transfer Function Model for Unsteady Flow
- Thrust-Vector Control for Supermaneuvering
- Longitudinal Control for Recovery
- High Mach Number Difficulties
- The First Dive Pullout Problems
- P-47 Dive Tests at Wright Field
- P-51 and P-39 Dive Difficulties
- Transonic Aerodynamic Testing
- Invention of the Sweptback Wing
- Sweptback Wings Are Tamed at Low Speeds
- Fences and Wing Engine Pylons
- Trim Changes Due to Compressibility
- Transonic Pitchup
- Supersonic Directional Instability
- Principal Axis Inclination Instability
- High-Altitude Stall Buffet
- Supersonic Altitude Stability
- Stability and Control of Hypersonic Airplanes
- Naval Aircraft Problems
- Standard Carrier Approaches
- Aerodynamic and Thrust Considerations
- Theoretical Studies
- Direct Lift Control
- The T-45A Goshawk
- The Lockheed S-3A Viking
- Concluding Remarks
- Ultralight and Human-Powered Airplanes
- Commercial and Kit-Built Ultralight Airplanes
- The Gossamer and MIT Human-Powered Aircraft
- Ultralight Airplane Pitch Stability
- Turning Human-Powered Ultralight Airplanes
- Fuel Slosh, Deep Stall, and More
- Deep Stall
- Ground Effect
- Directional Stability and Control in Ground Rolls
- Vee - or Butterfly Tails
- Control Surface Buzz
- Rudder Lock and Dorsal Fins
- Flight Vehicle System Identification from Flight Test
- 14.8.2 Knob Twisting
- 14.8.3 Modern Identification Methods
- Extension to Nonlinearities and Unsteady Flow Regimes
- Lifting Body Stability and Control
- Safe Personal Airplanes
- Progress after the Guggenheim Competition
- Early Safe Personal Airplane Designs
- 1948 and 1966 NACA and NASA Test Series
- Control Friction and Apparent Spiral Instability
- Wing Levelers
- The Role of Displays
- Inappropriate Stability Augmentation
- Unusual Aerodynamic Arrangements
- Blind-Flying Demands on Stability and Control
- Needle, Ball, and Airspeed
- Artificial Horizon, Directional Gyro, and Autopilots
- Single-Pilot IFR Operations
- The Prospects for Safe Personal Airplanes
- Stability and Control Issues with Variable Sweep
- The Rotation-Only Breakthrough
- The F-111 Aardvark, or TFX
- The F-14 Tomcat
- The Oblique or Skewed Wing
- Other Variable-Sweep Projects
- Modern Canard Configurations
- Canard Configuration Stall Characteristics
- Directional Stability and Control of Canard Airplanes
- The Penalty of Wing Sweepback on Low Subsonic Airplanes
- Canard Airplane Spin Recovery
- Other Canard Drawbacks