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Old 7th Mar 2024, 08:24
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Genghis the Engineer
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You're about right for static stability.

There are two different dynamic modes, the long period - commonly called the phugoid or sometimes "porpoising" typically with a period around half a minute in light aeroplanes, and the short period. They are driven by static stability, but the dynamic stability is down to damping terms. At first approximation I would tend to expect the phugoid to be stabilised at aft CG but the SPO to be destabilised, and vice-versa, but those are not universal rules.

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