an aircraft is said to have relaxed stability if it has low or negative stability. An aircraft with negative stability will have a tendency to change...

longitudinal stability Nyquist stability criterion, defining the limits of stability for pole-zero analysis in control systems Relaxed stability, the property...

The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk is an officially retired American single-seat, subsonic, twin-engined, stealth attack aircraft developed by Lockheed's secretive...

reduce the effect of g-forces on the pilot, and the first use of a relaxed static stability/fly-by-wire flight control system that helps to make it an agile...

natural stability of the aircraft can be relaxed (slightly for a transport aircraft; more for a maneuverable fighter), which means that the stability surfaces...

speeds, subsonic and supersonic, achieved by having intentionally relaxed stability. The quadruplex digital fly-by-wire control system manages the inherent...

stability to provide high manoeuvrability. Low or negative stability is called relaxed stability. An aircraft with low or negative static stability will...

digital fly-by-wire flight controls to artificially enforce and maintain stability. The aircraft's canards also act to reduce the minimum landing speed to...

The Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut (Russian: Сухой Су-47 «Беркут», lit. 'Golden Eagle') (NATO reporting name Firkin), also designated S-32 and S-37 during initial...

surfaces and settings without direct pilot inputs to maintain aircraft stability. The flight computer receives information on external conditions such...

Saab AB. The Gripen has a delta wing and canard configuration with relaxed stability design and fly-by-wire flight controls. Later aircraft are fully NATO...

preserving the stealth shaping. The high degree of static instability (or relaxed stability) in both pitch and yaw, advanced KSU-50 flight control system, and...

YF-23 was statically unstable—having relaxed stability—and flown through fly-by-wire which provided artificial stability with the flight control surfaces...

Dassault engineers have embedded into the design a certain degree of relaxed stability as the centre of gravity, or neutral point, is placed ahead of the...

The General Dynamics X-62 VISTA ("Variable Stability In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft") is an experimental aircraft, derived from the F-16D Fighting...

The General Dynamics F-16XL is a derivative of the F-16 Fighting Falcon with a cranked-arrow delta wing. It entered the United States Air Force's (USAF)...

structural reinforcement. More importantly, when working with the relaxed-stability design and the accompanying fly-by-wire flight-control system, the...

enable good ballistic survivability. The airplane's aerodynamics, relaxed stability, and powerful thrust-vectoring engines give it excellent maneuverability...

right/left side of the vertical stabilizer. Relaxed stability Car handling Flight dynamics Dutch roll Longitudinal stability Hunting oscillation "Pilot's Handbook...

Lockheed Have Blue was the code name for Lockheed's proof of concept demonstrator for a stealth fighter. Have Blue was designed by Lockheed's Skunk Works...

in favor of a more conventional tailed delta wing. The advent of relaxed stability flight control systems in the 1970s negated many of the disadvantages...

gear in the front, and two single wheels in the rear. The MFI had relaxed stability and was controlled by a fly-by-wire flight control system. Mikoyan...

Su-30MKI aerodynamic configuration is a longitudinal triplane with relaxed stability. The canard increases the aircraft lift ability and deflects automatically...

signals forwards.[page needed] Counterclaims to this are that the Relaxed stability of modern fighter aircraft mean that canards only have to very momentarily...

alpha (angle-of-attack) characteristics, with a trimmed alpha of 50°. Relaxed stability and triplex-redundant fly-by-wire controls provide excellent handling...

well aft of the aerodynamic center, made the craft inherently unstable. Stability was provided by the computerized flight control system making 40 corrections...

F-16XL 1982 – Relaxed stability delta wing, boundary layer suction laminar flow General Dynamics F-16 VISTA 1992 – Variable stability, thrust vectoring...

IIING used a fly-by-wire system to allow control over the aircraft's relaxed stability. The aircraft had an improved nav/attack system with inertial navigation...

Su-30MKA aerodynamic configuration is a longitudinal triplane with relaxed stability. The canard increases the aircraft lift ability and deflects automatically...

Reduced-gravity aircraft – Reduced take-off and landing (RTOL) – Relaxed stability – Remove before flight tag – RIAT – Roadable aircraft – Rocket turbine...