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redpoint5 · 03-22-2022, 04:43 AM

I'd expect Dutch Roll to be a software solvable solution. The whole reason why plane shapes haven't evolved much over the years is that inherent stability was assumed. It's going to take software to break that paradigm.

03-22-2022, 04:43 AM	#2 (permalink)
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