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Unlike most forms of transport (by sea, road, railroad), transport through the air can in principle take place in the full three-dimensional space. As a consequence, controlling the flight-path of an aircraft is essentially far more complicated than that of a surface-bound (or line-bound) vehicle.
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Mooij, H.A. (1985). Background and Outline of the Book. In: Criteria for Low-Speed Longitudinal Handling Qualities. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1193-7_1
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