An Interim Report on the Stability and Control of Tailless Airplanes

Download or read book An Interim Report on the Stability and Control of Tailless Airplanes written by United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problems relating to the stability and control of tailless airplanes are discussed in consideration of contemporary experience and practice. In the present state of the design of the tailless airplanes, it appears that sweepback affords a method of supplying tail length for directional and longitudinal stability and control, that the damping in pitching appears to have little effect on longitudinal behavior of the airplane provided the static margin is never permitted to become negative, that the influence of lateral resistance and the damping in yawing on the flying qualities is somewhat obscure, and that a reevaluation of the relative performance to be expected from tailless and conventional designs should be made.