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Moment Created by an Airfoil and Stability
Here there's the usual misunderstanding of trimming vs. stability at work.
An airplane is trimmed if all moments (and forces) acting on it sum up to zero. That's simple. Anyway it is stable if: when, ...
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Moment Created by an Airfoil and Stability
how a moment would be generated that would be different than simply the effect about the true center of mass of the aircraft
Well, it wouldn't be if the center of mass were at the aerodynamic center ...
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Moment Created by an Airfoil and Stability
Maybe I should have a word with Martin Hepperle, but the way he displays the force is how you will find it in the literature, too.
Please note that in addition to the lift vector at the neutral point, ...
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