During ground take-off/landing maneouvres, aircraft landing gear can display unwanted oscillations, which are referred to as shimmy oscillations. Scientist are studying the dynamics of aircraft ...

Current methods of predicting lateral-directional dynamic stability using closed form small perturbation equations are often inaccurate. Flight test data usually shows Dutch-roll characteristics; in ...

One concept to reduce an aircraft's fuel consumption is to increase wing aspect ratio, i.e. the ratio of wing span to wing chord. Although slender (i. e. high aspect ratio) wings have low induced drag ...