Flight Path Flight velocity AOA AOI RAF
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Fig 1
What is flight path?
The curve which we attain by
tracing Center of gravity( C.G.) of airplane at every second is known as Flight path.
What is flight
velocity?
The tangent drawn to the flight
path at any instant gives flight velocity.
What is Relative Air
flow?
When aircraft moves, atmosphere
stays rest. But in our dynamics approach in order to make analysis simple, we
are considering aircraft to be stationary and the air as moving. So whatever
the flight velocity with which we move, we will feel that much velocity against
to that; that velocity is what Relative air flow velocity or free stream
velocity.
What is angle of
attack?
The angle between relative air
flow and the chord line of aerofoil is the angle of attack.
Fig 2
What is angle of
incidence?
The angle between fuselage
reference line and average chord of wing is the angle of incidence. see fig. 1 for reference. you just draw chord line for the main wing aerofoil. Note that it makes an angle with fuselage reference line.
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