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Volume 20, Issue 3
1 March 1948
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| March 01 1948

Choice of Fin Area and Dihedral: A mathematical exposition of the working rules for the choice of nv and —lv for a new aeroplane, taking the 33½ per cent fin and rudder margin, the low‐speed rate of roll requirement and the damping of lateral oscillation rate as criteria

F.B. Baker, M.A.
Warden of the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1948
Aircraft Engineering (1948) 20 (3): 87–88.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb031614

THE choice of nv and — lv for a new aircraft is not simply a matter of chance; nor can it be decided entirely by considerations of stability. Below are given certain working rules, which should act as a useful guide.

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