Pomilio, Ottorino · New York, McGraw-Hill · leaf 152
II) are supplementary wing surfaces, generallysituated behind the principal wing surfaces and making anangle of incidence smaller than that of the principal wingsurface. The effect of stabilizers is to raise the zone inwhich the meeting points of the various resultants are,thus facilitating the… … The preceding is applied to cases in which the axis ofthrust passes through the center of gravity. It is also neces-sary to consider the case, which may happen in practice, inwhich the axis of thrust does not pass through the center ofgravity. Then, in order to have equilibrium, it is necessarythat…
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