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foregoing material. However, it must be remembered that alternative methods for
aerodynamic modelling are commonly in use when rather greater detail is required in
the equations of motion. For example, in continuous simulation models, the equations
of motion may well be non-linear and the aerodynamic models are correspondingly
rather more complex. Or, today, it is common practice to investigate analytically the
dynamic behaviour of combat aircraft at very high angles of incidence, conditions
which may be grossly non-linear and for which the aerodynamic derivative would be
incapable of ...