Lewis R. Fisher
A fuselage-vertical-tail combination with tails of two aspect ratios, each of which was tested at four tail lengths, was oscillated in yaw through a range of reduced-frequency parameter corresponding to the lateral motions of airplanes. The tail force caused by yawing, and, hence, the approximate contribution of the tail to the damping in yaw, was measured for each condition as a phase angle between the lateral force on the vertical tail and the displacement in yaw of the model. These phase angles were measured with the tail in the presence of the fuselage.
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