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Flight Dynamics Principles, 2nd Edition
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Flight Dynamics Principles, 2nd Edition

by Michael V. Cook
February 2011
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
488 pages
17h 21m
English
Butterworth-Heinemann
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Ch07-H6927.tex 20/6/2007 16: 34 Page 179
Lateral–Directional Dynamics 179
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Figure 7.1 Aircraft response to 1
2 s aileron pulse input.
non-minimum phase numerator terms. The effect of these non-minimum phase terms
would seem to be insignificantly small since they are not detectable in the responses
shown in Figs 7.1 and 7.2, with one exception. The roll rate response p to rudder,
shown in Fig. 7.2, exhibits a sign reversal for the first second or so of its response and
this is the manifestation of
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