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...

limits of stability for pole-zero analysis in control systems Relaxed stability, the property of inherently unstable aircraft Ship stability in naval architecture...

The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk is a retired American single-seat, subsonic twin-engine stealth attack aircraft developed by Lockheed's secretive Skunk Works...

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...

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

The Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut (Russian: Сухой Су-47 «Беркут», lit. 'Golden Eagle') (NATO reporting name Firkin), also designated S-32 and S-37 (not to be confused...

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)...

having an intentionally relaxed stability design. It has a quadruplex digital fly-by-wire control system providing artificial stability, as manual operation...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Directional stability is stability of a moving body or vehicle about an axis which is perpendicular to its direction of motion. Stability of a vehicle...

without afterburners. The YF-23 was statically unstable — having relaxed stability — and flown through fly-by-wire with the flight control surfaces controlled...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

prototype shaping was immature and not quite refined. The aircraft had relaxed stability and was controlled via fly-by-wire, integrated into the vehicle management...

300 hp) of electrical power to power the ship systems. Freedom has relaxed stability so it can rapidly change course. The operational concept includes...