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Especially in the light of innovative aircraft configurations with sweptback and delta wings, and without tail planes (tailless aircraft), that encountered compressibility effects in the transonic range, the question was raised, what kind of flying qualities can be expected of such an aircraft and how can they be improved, if the need arises. The pilot judgments were here especially called for, which demanded progressively new standards for the flying qualities guidelines. To generate the databases necessary for this, aircraft were needed whose stability properties could be varied through structural or flight control measures in a such way that a wide spectrum of flying qualities, as optimal as possible, could be evaluated for different flight tasks such as takeoff and landing or target tracking.
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Hamel, P.G. (2017). Variable Stability Aircraft and In-Flight Simulators. In: Hamel, P. (eds) In-Flight Simulators and Fly-by-Wire/Light Demonstrators. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53997-3_5
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