- In aviation, a
phugoid or
fugoid (/ˈfjuːɡɔɪd/ ) is an
aircraft motion in
which the
vehicle pitches up and climbs, and then
pitches down and descends,...
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inertia increase the
coupling between short period and
phugoid modes, so that
these will
modify the
phugoid. With a
symmetrical rocket or missile, the directional...
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oscillation called a
phugoid mode and a short-period
oscillation referred to as the short-period mode. The
longer period mode,
called the "
phugoid mode," is the...
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system in an
attempt to
dampen the
phugoid cycles and
Dutch rolls further. This was
somewhat successful, as the
phugoid cycles were
dampened almost completely...
- yaw-roll
coupling is one of the
basic flight dynamic modes (others
include phugoid,
short period, and
spiral divergence). This
motion is
normally well damped...
- of
controllability about the
pitch axis and the
nature of an aircraft's
phugoid-mode oscillation. When the term "dihedral" (of an aircraft) is used by...
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hydraulic systems and set the wing on fire. The
aircraft began a
dangerous phugoid (vertical oscillation) but the crew
managed to land
safely at the airport...
- disabled. The
aircraft pitched rapidly up and down in a roller-coaster
phugoid,
oscillating between a nose-up and a nose-down position. As in the case...
- turn in
order to
return to Tan Son Nhut. The
aircraft began to
exhibit phugoid oscillations, but the crew
countered them and
maintained a
controlled descent...
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airplane was
tending to pull
right and
oscillated slowly vertically in a
phugoid cycle –
characteristic of
planes in
which control surface command is lost...
