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Testing Stability and Control of Aeroplanes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

A. G. von Baumhauer
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The subject which I have to discuss to-day is one which can be treated from a standpoint of the scientist or from that of the practical engineer. I am going to try to discuss it from the latter point of view.

The testing of the behaviour of aeroplanes in flight, to which I want to draw attention, does not deal with research on stability and control, it only deals with checking the flying characteristics with regard to the requirements which should be fulfilled.

In the Dutch requirements for a certificate of airworthiness for civil aircraft there are several detail rules, which all tend to state that the aeroplane should be stable and well controllable within the whole region of flight, and for all conditions which may occur in normal and special use.

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Proceedings
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 43 , Issue 341 , May 1939 , pp. 333 - 369
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1939

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References

Note on page 336 * N.A.C.A., Report Nr. 578, 1936. Flight measurements of the dynamic longitudinal stability of several aeroplanes and a correlation of the measurements with pilot's observations of handling characteristics.

Note on page 337 * Reports and Memoranda No. 636, S. B. Gates. Control as a Criterion of Longitudinal Stability. R. & M. No. 638, H. Glauert. The Longitudinal Control of an aeroplane.

Note on page 337 † Part V. Verslagen en Verhandelingen van den Ryksstudiedienst voor de Luchtvaart, Amsterdam, 1929. National Institute for Aeronautical Research.

Note on page 337 ‡ Fifth Congress for Aerial Navigation, The Hague, 1930, p. 390,

Note on page 339 * Reports and Memoranda 134. Longitudinal Stability.

Note on page 342 * Reports and Memoranda 1060, 1927. Flying positions of control surfaces of the Bristol Fighter.