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nce the stabilizing moments 26 AIRPLANE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION due to the stabilizer. This will allow the machine to assumea complete series of angles of incidence, enabling it tomaneuver for climbing or descending. There are also usually two parts controlling directionalstability; one fixed… … (Fig. 27). In this case there is no force of drift, but iffor some reason the line of flight is no longer coincidentwith the rolling axis, a force of drift is developed (Fig. 28),whose point of application is called center of drift. Ifthis center is found to lie behind the center of gravity,…
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