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MIT OpenCourseWare
Aircraft Stability and Control
- Instructor
- Prof. Jonathan P. How
- Term
- Fall 2004
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 32 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 16.333 Aircraft Stability and Control, Fall 2004, Prof. Jonathan P. How — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
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- A lecture sequence of 17 items is confirmed. Assignment and exam materials exist too, but MIT's own order for them could not be verified, so they're shown as materials below rather than a sequence.
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Lecture Notes
26 files
- Lecture 1 · Equilibrium States Aircraft Performance Introduction to Basic Terms Download
- Lecture 2 · Static Stability Aircraft SS (Longitudinal) Wing/Tail Contributions Download
- Lecture 3 · Coordinate Systems Euler Angles Quaternions Download
- This is a supporting file for lecture 3, and contains program code (navion_1.m) Download
- Lecture 4 · Aircraft Dynamics Download
- Lecture 6 · Aircraft Longitudinal Dynamics Download
- Matrix Diagonalization Download
- This is a supporting file for lecture 6, and contains program code (lecture4.m) Download
- Lecture 7 · Approximate Longitudinal Dynamics Models Download
- Lecture 8 · Aircraft Lateral Dynamics Spiral, Roll, and Dutch Roll Modes Download
- This is a supporting file for lecture 8, and contains program code (lecture11.m) Download
- Lecture 9 · Basic Longitudinal Control Download
- Lecture 10 · State Space Control Download
- Lecture 12 · Aircraft Lateral Autopilots Download
- This is a supporting file for lecture 12, and contains program code (ac3.m) Download
- This is a supporting file for lecture 12, and contains program code (newr.m) Download
- This is a supporting file for lecture 12, and contains program code (ac3_lat.mdl) Download
- Lecture 13 · Aircraft Longitudinal Autopilots Altitude Hold and Landing Download
- This is a supporting file for lecture 13, and contains program code (altit_simul.m) Download
- This is a supporting file for lecture 13, and contains program code (altit.mdl) Download
- Lecture 14 · Equations of Motion in a Nonuniform Atmosphere Gusts and Winds Download
- Lecture 15 · Inertial Sensors Complementary Filtering Simple Kalman Filtering Download
- Examples of Estimation Filters from Recent Aircraft Projects at MIT Download
- Lecture 16 · System Identification Download
- Lecture 17 · Model Validation Download
- Distributed Coordination and Control Experiments on a Multi-UAV Testbed Download
Assignments
- Homework 1 Download
- Homework 2 Download
- Hint for Homework 2 Download
- Homework 3 Download
- Homework 4 Download
- This is a supporting file for homework 4, and contains program code (hw4_aerosonde_dist.mdl) Download
Other materials from this course
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Static Stability Aircraft SS (Longitudinal) Wing/Tail Contributions
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Lecture 3: Coordinate Systems Euler Angles Quaternions
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Lecture 4: Aircraft Dynamics
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Lecture 5: Aircraft Dynamics (cont.)
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Lecture 6: Aircraft Longitudinal Dynamics
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Lecture 7: Approximate Longitudinal Dynamics Models
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Lecture 8: Aircraft Lateral Dynamics Spiral, Roll, and Dutch Roll Modes
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Lecture 9: Basic Longitudinal Control
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Lecture 10: State Space Control
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Lecture 11: State Space Control (cont.)
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Lecture 12: Aircraft Lateral Autopilots
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Lecture 13: Aircraft Longitudinal Autopilots Altitude Hold and Landing
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Lecture 14: Equations of Motion in a Nonuniform Atmosphere Gusts and Winds
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Lecture 15: Inertial Sensors Complementary Filtering Simple Kalman Filtering
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Lecture 16: System Identification
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Lecture 17: Model Validation
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Jonathan P. How, 16.333 Aircraft Stability and Control, Fall 2004.
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