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Flight dynamics is the study of orientation of air and space vehicles and how to control the critical flight parameters, typically named pitch, roll and yaw. Flight dynamics. ...
Jump to: navigation, search An aircraft is any machine capable of atmospheric flight. ...
Ariane 5 lifts off with the Rosetta space probe on March 2, 2004. ...
Vehicles are non-living means of transportation. ...
Pitch is rotation around the lateral or transverse axis. This axis is parallel to the wings, thus the nose and tail both pitch up or down. An aircraft pitches up to climb and pitches down to dive. The term, transverse means side-to-side as opposed to longitudinal which means front-to-back. In automotive engineering, the term, transverse refers to an engine in which the crankshaft is oriented side-to-side relative to the wheels of the vehicle. ...
The axis of rotation of a rotating body is a line such that the distance between any point on the line and any point of the body remains constant under the rotation. ...
The term Parallel has a number of important meanings: Parallel (geometry) occurs in geometry. ...
Roll is rotation around the longitudinal axis—an axis drawn through the body of the vehicle from tail to nose. This is also known as bank. The term, longitudinal means front-to-back or top-to-bottom as opposed to transverse which means side-to-side. In automotive engineering, the term, longitudinal refers to an engine in which the crankshaft is oriented along the long axis of the vehicle, front to back. ...
Yaw is rotation about the normal axis—an axis perpendicular to the pitch and roll axes. If an airplane model placed on a flat surface is spun or pivoted around the center of mass (coordinate origin) it would be described as yawing. A surface normal, or just normal to a flat surface is a three-dimensional vector which is perpendicular to that surface. ...
For the Deep Purple album, see Purpendicular. ...
The center of mass or center of inertia of an object is a point at which the objects mass can be assumed, for many purposes, to be concentrated. ...
See Cartesian coordinate system or Coordinates (elementary mathematics) for a more elementary introduction to this topic. ...
In mathematics, the origin of a coordinate system is the point where the axes of the system intersect. ...
Aerospace engineers develop control laws and control systems to allow pilots to control their aircraft in the three dimensions described above. Aerospace engineering is the branch of engineering concerning aircraft, spacecraft and related topics. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Dimension (from Latin measured out) is, in essence, the number of degrees of freedom available for movement in a space. ...
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