Motion of the two-control airplane in rectilinear flight after initial disturbances with introduction of controls following an exponential law
This NACA technical note from 1937, issued by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, analyses the rectilinear motion of an aeroplane with two control surfaces after an initial disturbance, with controls applied on an exponential schedule; it is aimed at aeronautical engineers and flight researchers. The pictures are plotted response curves of roll rate against time in seconds, with dashed and solid traces comparing rolling-moment and yawing-moment control cases, plus one inset graph; a designer might take from them only the clean graph layout and the dense grid-and-curve style of engineering charts.
