Recall from 6-2 that the derivative stability derivative terms zai, and Mi ended up on the lhs as modifications to the normal mass and Inertia terms displaced air is \entrained\and moves with the aircraf rounding These are the apparent mass effects- some of the sur Acceleration derivatives quantify this effect Significant for blimps, less so for aircraft e Main effect: rate of change of the normal velocity w causes a transient
Note can develop good approximation of key aircraft motion(Phugoid) using simple balance between kinetic and potential energies. Consider an aircraft in steady, level flight with speed U and height ho. The motion is perturbed slightly so that
Static stability is all about the initial tendency of a body to return to its equilibrium state after being disturbed To have a statically stable equilibrium point, the vehicle must develop a restoring force/ moment to bring it back to the eq. condition Later on we will also deal with dynamic stability, which is concerned with the time history of the motion after the disturbance