The Spinning of Aircraft - A Discussion of Spin Prediction Techniques Including a Chronological Bibliography
Abstract
Aircraft spinning is an important area of design for general aviation and military aircraft, and has been so, since the early days of aviation. In many of the major aeronautical laboratories in the world, aircraft spinning has been the subject of intensive periods of research. However, the resulting design criteria are still only adequate for predicting gross trends in aircraft spin behaviour. To enable flight testing to proceed with confidence and to minimise modifications during flight development most major aircraft development programmes include extensive scale-model spin testing. In this paper, the development of these techniques and their application for spin prediction will be discussed. In current military aircraft stability augmentation systems add further considerations for high angle-of-attack and spin behaviour. These and future considerations of thrust vectoring for aircraft control at high angles-of-attack are outside the scope of this paper. Keywords: Australia; Spin stabilization, Yaw, Spinning (motion).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA216200
Entities
People
- Carina A. Martin