Talk:George H. Bryan

Control vs. stability
I'm not sure exactly what's intended by "stability and control of an aircraft tend to lie on opposite ends of the same spectrum". What spectrum is that, exactly? Are more stable aircraft more or less difficult to control? NillaGoon (talk) 17:07, 3 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, sort of. A perfectly stable aeroplane would not be controllable as its natural stability would counteract any control movements. Thus aircraft stability is a compromise between one extreme and the other


 * On a properly designed aeroplane the stability is dependant on the centre of gravity (CofG), too far forward and the aircraft only wants to fly straight-and-level, too far aft and the aircraft wants to go off in all directions.

What were his two equations
says "He was able to encapsulate in a pair of equations the design features and conditions necessary to keep an aircraft stable. The problem was these equations couldn’t be solved without knowing certain parameters that depended on how initial forces acting on the aircraft’s surfaces altered its motion about its three axes." - Rod57 (talk) 16:24, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

Reference to Wright brothers
“ In 1911, a year after the Wright brothers' successful flight, he published Stability in Aviation (Macmillan).” – the Wright brothers’ successful flight was in 1903, wasn’t it? 49.180.18.181 (talk) 05:26, 29 September 2023 (UTC)