directional stability in a sentence
Examples
- While " WG760 " had proven the P . 1 design to be viable, it was limited to due to directional stability limits.
- The test pilots found the aircraft easy to fly, but the control forces were very high at speed and it lacked enough directional stability.
- The X-2 and X-3 variants of the weapon did so by achieving even higher descent speeds into the transonic range without losing directional stability.
- Should the tail rotor fail randomly during cruise flight, forward momentum will often provide some directional stability, as many helicopters are equipped with a vertical stabilizer.
- In its place, directional stability and control is provided by rudders mounted in the winglets ( Beechcraft called them tipsails ) at the tips of the wings.
- The majority of accidents were during takeoffs and landings due to the aircraft's fairly high wing loading, high approach speed and a directional stability problems during takeoffs.
- Note : Installing a heavy, powerful engine in a light weight production vehicle designed around a small engine increases both its directional stability, and its tendency to understeer.
- After 1941, British Beauforts were fitted with semi-circular plates on the trailing edges of the upper wing behind the engine nacelles to smooth airflow and improve directional stability.
- He also installed the nose of a Lockheed NF-104A with eight hydrogen peroxide thrusters around the nose to provide added directional stability as the control surfaces lost effect.
- What it does, simply put, is keep the wheels from locking during hard braking in order to maintain directional stability _ it keeps you from sliding into things.