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Instability: The tendency of an aeroplane to depart involuntarily from the set line of flight. Instability may express itself in yawing (swinging to right or left), rolling or porpoising (following an undulating path).
Crow Instability contrail over San Francisco
Trail from the flap of a landing airliner
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Spiral instability
An aircraft with positive spiral stability tends to roll out of a turn by itself if the controls are centred.
Too much instability is also an undesirable characteristic, except where an
extremely manoeuvrable aircraft is needed and the instability can be continually
corrected by on-board 'fly-by-wire' computers rather than the pilot, such as a ...
Tangential remark: The type of instability shown in figure 10.2 is an exceptionally simple form of instability.
As thunderstorms belong to the cumulative cloud family, their development is based on processes which will cause an air mass to rise. That will happen by either instability or by an upward force along some frontal system in a convergence zone, ...
When an aircraft has too much static directional stabiles (or weathercock stability) in comparison to the dihedral effect spiral instability arises. In spiral divergence the airplane disturbed goes into an ever steeping spiral dive.
Gyroplanes also cannot fly safely under low-g conditions, such as a pitch-over maneuver commonly used in fixed-wing aircraft, due to excessive loss of rotor rpm and resulting rotor instability.
Rotor blades that are equal in weight will balance each other. Unbalanced (unequal in weight) rotor blades will cause model shake and instability in flight.
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The twin-engine airplane had a conventional, three-member tail, so there was less of the V-tail's inherent yaw instability. Roll and pitch response remained excellent, just as they were with the later straight-tailed Bonanza.
and 30 seconds, but he managed to keep awake by sticking his head out the window to inhale cold air, by holding his eyelids open, and by constantly reminding himself that if he fell asleep he would perish. In addition, he had a slight instability ...
is sealed and does not have any exit holes since most of the air is fed directly into the cushion. Even small tears in this type of skirt can, however, lead to considerable loss of skirt pressure which in turn could result in dangerous instability.
This led to an increase in weight and adversely affected the plane's performance: it now suffered from instability and was difficult to handle.
 See also: Flight, Stability, Plane, Aircraft, Force
  
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