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Dynamic and Static Yaw stability of a swept flying wing with winglets

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John Newton

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All,

I have just read through John Roncz's excellent article on designing homebuilt aircraft featured in the February/March 1990 edition of Sport Aviation. He mentions tail volume as being important to static stability and damping power as being important to yaw damping and therefore dynamic stability.


Tail volume is proportional to tail area x distance to centre of gravity
Damping power is proportional to tail area x distance to centre of gravity squared
 
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