Aircraft principal axes
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aircraft-principal-axes-182-13580176
title:
Aircraft principal axes
text:
An aircraft in flight is free to rotate in three dimensions: yaw, nose left or right about an axis running up and down; pitch, nose up or down about an axis running from wing to wing; and roll, rotation about an axis running from nose to tail. The axes are alternatively designated as vertical, lateral, and longitudinal respectively. These axes move with the vehicle and rotate relative to the Earth along with the craft. These definitions were analogously applied to spacecraft when the first crewe
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Principal directions in aviation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_principal_axes
date created:
2007-01-20T20:39:50Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T15:41:38Z
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