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  2. Minimum control speeds - Wikipedia

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    When design engineers are sizing an airplane's vertical tail and flight control surfaces, they have to take into account the effect this will have on the airplane's minimum control speeds. Minimum control speeds are typically established by flight tests [1] [2] [3] as part of an aircraft certification process.

  3. Aircraft flight control system - Wikipedia

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    Cockpit controls and instrument panel of a Cessna 182D Skylane. Generally, the primary cockpit flight controls are arranged as follows: [2] A control yoke (also known as a control column), centre stick or side-stick (the latter two also colloquially known as a control or joystick), governs the aircraft's roll and pitch by moving the ailerons (or activating wing warping on some very early ...

  4. Aircraft flight dynamics - Wikipedia

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    A control system includes control surfaces which, when deflected, generate a moment (or couple from ailerons) about the cg which rotates the aircraft in pitch, roll, and yaw. For example, a pitching moment comes from a force applied at a distance forward or aft of the cg, causing the aircraft to pitch up or down.

  5. V speeds - Wikipedia

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    Minimum control speed ground. The minimum speed that the aircraft is still controllable with the critical engine inoperative [21] while the aircraft is on the ground. V MCL: Minimum control speed in the landing configuration with one engine inoperative. [9] [21] V MO: Maximum operating limit speed. [7] [8] [9] Exceeding V MO may trigger an ...

  6. Maneuvering speed - Wikipedia

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    It has been widely misunderstood that flight below maneuvering speed will provide total protection from structural failure.In response to the destruction of American Airlines Flight 587, a CFR Final Rule was issued clarifying that "flying at or below the design maneuvering speed does not allow a pilot to make multiple large control inputs in one airplane axis or single full control inputs in ...

  7. Flight control modes - Wikipedia

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    High speed protection will automatically recover from an overspeed. There are two speed limitations for high altitude aircraft, V MO (maximum operational velocity) and M MO (maximum operational Mach) the two speeds are the same at approximately 31,000 feet, below which overspeed is determined by V MO and above which by M MO. [citation needed]

  8. Flight instruments - Wikipedia

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    The cockpit of a Slingsby T-67 Firefly two-seat light airplane.The flight instruments are visible on the left of the instrument panel. Flight instruments are the instruments in the cockpit of an aircraft that provide the pilot with data about the flight situation of that aircraft, such as altitude, airspeed, vertical speed, heading and much more other crucial information in flight.

  9. Aircraft dynamic modes - Wikipedia

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    Although usually stable in a normal aircraft, the motion may be so slightly damped that the effect is very unpleasant and undesirable. In swept-back wing aircraft, the Dutch roll is solved by installing a yaw damper, in effect a special-purpose automatic pilot that damps out any yawing oscillation by applying rudder corrections. Some swept-wing ...