Gordon mckinzie Manager, New Aircraft Development United airlines I joined United Airlines in 1967 and am presently Manager of New Aircraft Development, a post I have held since 1987. Assignments at United have included
Aircraft Dynamics First note that it is possible to develop a very good approximation of a key motion of an aircraft(called the Phugoid mode) using a very simple balance between the kinetic and potential energies Consider an aircraft in steady, level fight with speed Uo and height ho The motion is perturbed slightly so that
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