On the roll-coupling instabilities of high-performance aircraft

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 356, Issue 1745, 1998, Pages 2223-2239

  Jahnke, Craig C ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft; Bifurcation; Control loss; Dynamics; Instability; Roll coupling

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042970535     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1998.0271     Document Type: Article

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