Lateral stability and control of a tailless aircraft configuration

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2161-2163

  Stenfelt, Gloria ^a,b   Ringertz, Ulf ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Division of Flight Dynamics   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC CONFIGURATIONS; AIRCRAFT; ANGLE OF ATTACK; CAMERAS; FLAPS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; WIND TUNNELS;

AIRCRAFT CONFIGURATIONS; ANGLES OF ATTACK; FREE-STREAM VELOCITY; LATERAL STABILITY; LOW-SPEED WIND TUNNEL; MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM; TAILLESS AIRCRAFT; TRAILING EDGE FLAPS;

FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 73849083421     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.41092     Document Type: Article

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