Names For The Axes of Vehicles
Air vehicles use a coordinate system of axes to help name important parameters used in the analysis of stability. All the axes run through the center of gravity (called the "CG"):
- "X" or "x" axis runs from back to front along the body, called the Roll Axis.
- "Y" or "y" axis runs left to right along the wing, called the Pitch Axis.
- "Z" or "z" runs from top to bottom, called the Yaw Axis.
Two slightly different alignments of these axes are used depending on the situation: "Body-fixed Axes", and "Stability Axes".
Read more about this topic: Stability Derivatives
Famous quotes containing the words names for, names, axes and/or vehicles:
“Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Henothing common did, or mean,
Upon the memorable Scene:
But with his keener Eye
The Axes edge did try:”
—Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
“Only by the supernatural is a man strong; nothing is so weak as an egotist. Nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)