JohnFTEng: I don't think it really exist anymore with FBW ????
but the HTBJ explaination is the allowed range of airspeed/Mach no divergence allowed, for a given hands-off trimmed out yoke; I'm paraphrasing and perhaps slightly bastardizing now.
BTW Mad (flt Scientist) covered the other aircraft stabilities and modes thereof wonderfully in another thread...
just can't find it now--- diazapam + codeine --- anyone wonder why I no longer fly (at this time period in life stopped flying
rhovsquared