Why birds and mini-aircraft need no vertical tail

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 45-57

  Sachs, G ^a,b,c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Institute of Flight Mechanics and Flight Control   (Germany)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; VERTICAL TAIL; YAW AXIS;

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATION THEORY; FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 29344459619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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