Stability in ornithopter longitudinal flight dynamics

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1157-1162

  Dietl, John M ^a,b   Garcia, Ephrahim ^a,b  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b AIAA ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; RESEARCH AIRCRAFT;

EIGENVALUE CALCULATIONS; EIGENVALUES; FLAPPING FREQUENCY; FLOQUET; LIMIT-CYCLE; TIME-SCALES; VEHICLE DESIGN; WING TWIST;

WINGS;

EID: 48849096011     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.33561     Document Type: Article

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