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Old 9th May 2012, 14:30
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Meikleour
 
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Pace; Power tries to accelerate the aircraft, the aircraft is trimmed for a speed therefore if the speed tends to increase, the aircraft will climb to maintain trimmed speed.

If you displace a correctly trimmed convential aircraft from its speed then release the controls it will return to its trimmed speed after a few phugoid excursions without any control inputs. Try it sometime in the cruise.
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