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pitch angle

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The angle between the aircraft's longitudinal axis and the horizontal plane. Also called inclination angle.


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There are certain challenges to this project, which include having a practical design that can be manufactured easily, to have a single degree of freedom, to control the pitch angle through the design, and to reach a mechanism that controls the flap within certain angle," Ahmed Talaat, one of the team members, said.
The impressive result revealed itself in a 70-degree pitch angle climb held until the aircraft decelerated to about 70 knots (we crisply rolled it inverted at about 110 knots), while the aircraft tracked the pitch angle like a laser.
 
 
 
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