Why birds and miniscale airplanes need no vertical tail

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1159-1167

  Sachs, G ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DAMPING; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS;

AERODYNAMIC DAMPING; AERODYNAMIC STABILITY; FLIGHT MECHANICS;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 34548352862     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.20175     Document Type: Conference Paper

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