Originally Posted by
iceman50
It was called intake momentum drag in the Harrier. Sideslip needed to be kept to a minimum in the transition from Jet-borne to wing-borne and vice versa, with AOA at 8. There were pedal shakers but more importantly a "wind vane" on the nose in your line of sight to assist in controlling the sideslip.
Interesting. So to see if I have it clear... if in sideslip with relative wind coming from the right, intake accelerates air to the right and therefore produces force to the left, which is ahead of CG so it yaws to the left, which is away from the relative wind (i.e., anti-weathervaning) and therefore unstable in yaw. Is that it?