From: (MLenoch)
Date: 9/29/2003 9:59 AM Central D
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"Fugoids"??? What, another Traverism? Me thinks its spelled
Phugoid.......with a "PH". Go ahead....look it up. My 5th graders'
dictionary
has it. Yours might.

VL

From : http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/org/a/...gue/node2.html

"T he phugoid mode is the simplest oscillatory mode in aircraft dynamics. The
only governing force is gravity, and energy is conserved, as there are no
dissipative mechanisms. The airplane can only trade kinetic energy for
potential and vice-versa. For a stationary observer the aircraft trajectory
looks like a sine wave, while for an observer moving with the 'average' speed
of the aircraft it looks like an ellipse. These are shown by the following
applet: "

Then they show graphics. I bet Tarver will say he doesn't have to look there
since he is smarter, that I am "trolling" and he will now call me names.

For the rest of you it is a rather nice visualization.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired