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To: cpdiii

And loss of the vertical stabilizer will initiate an unrecoverable spin? Why?


9 posted on 05/20/2016 1:52:18 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: IronJack
And loss of the vertical stabilizer will initiate an unrecoverable spin? Why?

The only thing that keeps the aircraft stable relative to forward flight is the vertical stabilizer. That is why it is called the vertical stabilizer. When an aircraft "yaws" left or right the vertical stabilizer gives a counter active correction and thus assumes stable flight. Without this vertical stabilizer the aircraft is inherently unstable. It will without doubt spin in as this become the "stable flight form" without the vertical stabilizer. At this point the pilot is helpless. It is going in!

It should be noted that the B2 Stealth bomber has no vertical stabilizer and is horribly unstable in flight. It can only fly because of the flight computer that inputs corrections to the instability in fractions of a second. A human pilot could not do this. The pilot flies the plane but the computer keeps it stable in flight via rapid micro corrections on the wings control surfaces.

15 posted on 05/20/2016 11:15:36 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, MUDMAN GEOLOGIST PILOT PHARMACIST LIBERTARIAN, CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
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