The yawing vibrations of an aircraft

Abstract

This report gives a theoretical method for calculating the natural frequencies and modes of yawing vibration of a complete aircraft. The basic feature of the treatment is the replacement of the continuous mass system by one consisting of a finite number of discrete masses elastically interconnected. In the, course of the analysis, use is made of the deflection coefficient artifice in the formation of the equations of motion, and the escalator process in their marshalling and numerical solution. The method has been applied to a single-engined fighter aircraft, for which the results of a resonance test were available. These results appear to be some 40 per cent. in excess of their calculated counterparts and no satisfactory explanation occurs to the authors to account for this incompatability.