Longitudinal Stability and Trim Changes at Speeds Near the Speed of Sound

Abstract

By considering a typical aircraft design at both low subsonic and high supersonic speeds, where its aerodynamic characteristics can be roughly calculated by simple theory, some indications of the nature of the changes in longitudinal stability and trim of an aircraft to be expected on passing through the speed of sound are obtained.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1944
Accession Number
ADA800658

Entities

People

  • R. Smelt

Organizations

  • Royal Aircraft Establishment

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamic Characteristics
  • Aircraft Design
  • Aircrafts
  • Airfoils
  • Aspect Ratio
  • Coefficients
  • Control Surfaces
  • Equations
  • Flight
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Government (Foreign)
  • High Altitude
  • Low Drag
  • Mach Number
  • Shock
  • Shock Waves

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow