A review.
This voice in the wilderness is returning and reiterating.
For too long now there has been almost aviation wide belief that we pilots can eliminate sideslip and continue to fly an unbalanced aircraft straight down its fore and aft axis.
All I am saying is THAT IS ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE.
So I am seeking a concensus amongst a few thinkers and movers to change the belief. The books are mostly wrong so there is no point in referring to a bunch of little diagrams to prove your points. You have to go beyond those books.
Here are a few motherhood statements I have used so far.
The overriding fact to be determined initially is whether an aircraft having any angle of bank and in steady straight balanced flight can achieve that condition without sideslip. This is the area causing the greatest confusion. Please can anyone nominate a circumstance now or forever hold your peace.
ANY imbalance in thrust on a multi, not having centre line engines, which is then flown straight by either rudder or bank or a combination inevitably results in sideslip. It is unavoidable
What is the effect of any resultant sideforce on a fusealge? There is ONLY ONE answer. The fuselage is of course forced to move sideways until it returns to balance.. This inevitably causes sideslip. This sideslip causes weathercocking of the fuselage and if adequate takes over from the rudder and allows us to fly rudder central. The sideslip angle then will be very close to that for wings level straight flight only differing as a result of the "efficiency" of the particular aircraft's vertical tail when sideslipping with and without rudder. The advantage we are endeavouring to achieve is to bring that rudder close to central thus providing us with better options at Vmca.
Two new pronouncements.
Any dissimilarity of one side of an aircraft with the other with an aircraft in steady straight flight will result in that aircraft's direction of flight NOT being coincident with the fore and aft axis. OR
Any aircraft having total drag offset from the fore and aft axis will be unable to have a direction of flight along its fore and aft axis.
How can it be otherwise?