Ah, flight mechanics is the soul of how an aircraft behaves in the air—lift, weight, thrust, drag, the whole dance, eh? Stability is whether she wants to return to steady flight on her own after a gust, and control is how I make her do what I want. But in the simulator last week, I learned a modern fly-by-wire fighter is *meant* to be unstable for agility—they use computers for control, no? So the textbook stability can be a limitation, not always a virtue. It reminds me, even a perfect recipe must change for a new stove.
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