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Longitudinal Stability, Speed and Height

Longitudinal Stability, Speed and Height IN highspeed level flight in the compressibility region an entirely new factor makes its appearance, viz small variations of atmospheric density and speed of sound with height. This factor affects dynamic stability due to continuous changes of height during longitudinal disturbances there is no effect in lateral disturbances. The affects are very small in lowspeed flight but they increase steadily with Mach number. The shortperiod oscillations are not affected but the corrections to phugoid motion become appreciable in high subcritical flight, larger in supercritical transonic range, and very important in supersonic flight. The effects of compressibility are of paramount significance but they should be considered in conjunction with varying height effects. Another result of the investigation is the appearance of a new mode of disturbance, due to the stability quartic being converted into a quintic. The fifth real root is often small, it may vary in sign according to aerodynamic properties of the aircraft and characteristics of the power unit. The new mode is a subsidence or a divergence, and it determines height stability or instability, hence it may show to what extent an aircraft is able to keep constant altitude over long stretches of time. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology Emerald Publishing

Longitudinal Stability, Speed and Height

Neumark, S.
Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology , Volume 22 (11): 12 – Nov 1, 1950
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Emerald Publishing
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0002-2667
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10.1108/eb031964
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Abstract

IN highspeed level flight in the compressibility region an entirely new factor makes its appearance, viz small variations of atmospheric density and speed of sound with height. This factor affects dynamic stability due to continuous changes of height during longitudinal disturbances there is no effect in lateral disturbances. The affects are very small in lowspeed flight but they increase steadily with Mach number. The shortperiod oscillations are not affected but the corrections to phugoid motion become appreciable in high subcritical flight, larger in supercritical transonic range, and very important in supersonic flight. The effects of compressibility are of paramount significance but they should be considered in conjunction with varying height effects. Another result of the investigation is the appearance of a new mode of disturbance, due to the stability quartic being converted into a quintic. The fifth real root is often small, it may vary in sign according to aerodynamic properties of the aircraft and characteristics of the power unit. The new mode is a subsidence or a divergence, and it determines height stability or instability, hence it may show to what extent an aircraft is able to keep constant altitude over long stretches of time.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology – Emerald Publishing

Published: Nov 1, 1950

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