Coming back to the Navy textbook quote and FBW systems for a moment:
I think that they ascribe an inverse relationship to stability vs maneuverability because their aircraft have FBW capabilities. If the airframe is actually unstable, but you have a computer making corrections thousands of times per second, then all of a sudden your aircraft appears very stable to the pilot. In this context, the quote is accurate.
Obviously this lets them combine agility and maneuverability into one, and I think this is why the quote says what it does.
Last edited by CaptainDoggles; 07-20-2012 at 10:13 PM.
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