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Horizontal Tail Volume Coefficient Analysis

The document discusses longitudinal stability in aircraft through three key points: 1) Longitudinal stability is achieved through proper sizing of the horizontal stabilizer and placement of the aircraft's center of gravity, which is measured by the horizontal tail volume coefficient between 0.3 and 0.6. 2) The aircraft's center of gravity should be placed near the aerodynamic center of the wing, which is around 25% of the mean wing chord, or 22% for highly cambered airfoils. 3) Components like fuel tanks, batteries, motors, etc. were placed in the fuselage to ensure proper center of gravity placement, which is essential for aircraft stability.

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Horizontal Tail Volume Coefficient Analysis

The document discusses longitudinal stability in aircraft through three key points: 1) Longitudinal stability is achieved through proper sizing of the horizontal stabilizer and placement of the aircraft's center of gravity, which is measured by the horizontal tail volume coefficient between 0.3 and 0.6. 2) The aircraft's center of gravity should be placed near the aerodynamic center of the wing, which is around 25% of the mean wing chord, or 22% for highly cambered airfoils. 3) Components like fuel tanks, batteries, motors, etc. were placed in the fuselage to ensure proper center of gravity placement, which is essential for aircraft stability.

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Stability and Control

•Longitudinal Stability

Longitudinal stability is primarily achieved through the adequate sizing of


the horizontal stabilizer and the proper placement of the aircraft center of
gravity. An important measure of the tail effectiveness is the horizontal tail
volume coefficient [7], shown in Equation 6.

In Equation 6, is the horizontal stabilizer planform area, is the horizontal


stabilizer moment arm, is the wing planform, and is the wing chord. A stable
aircraft typically has a value between 0.3 and 0.6 [7]. Thus, the horizontal
stabilizer was dimensioned in order to achieve a tail volume coefficient of 0.55
in support of objective O3.

Another criterion for longitudinal stability is that the CG of the aircraft should
sit very near to the aerodynamic center of the wing. For typical airfoils, this
point is very close to 25% of the mean wing chord. However, for a highly
cambered airfoil such as the S1223, this point is shifted a bit forward.
Therefore, in support of objective O3, the aircraft was constructed so that the
CG was at 22% of the mean wing chord.

And as for acheiving a proper center of gravity is consider the placement of


components like fuel tank, battery, bec, servo motors etc where placed in fuselage
which was designed to ensure proper placement of above components and C.G
considertion which is essential for stabilty of an aircraft.

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