William Bollay, "Aerodynamic Stability and Automatic Control," (14th Wright Brothers Lecture) Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences, Vol. 18, No. 9, Sept. 1951, pp.569-623, 640. Excellent treatment of classical control applied to aerospace vehicles.
Courtland D. Perkins, "Development of Airplane Stability and Control Technology," (1970 Von Karman Lecture), Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 7, No. 4, July-Aug 1970, pp.290-301. Very readable discussion of the key stability and control issues arising in vehicle design.
Duane McRuer and Dunstam Graham, "Eighty Years of Flight Control: Triumphs and Pitfalls of the Systems Approach," Journal of Guidance and Control, Vol. 4, No. 4, July-Aug 1981, pp. 353-362.
Irving L. Ashkenas, "Twenty-Five Years of Handling Qualities Research," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 21, No. 5, May 1984, pp. 289-301.
Arthur E. Bryson, Jr., "New Concepts in Control Theory, 1959-1984," Journal of Guidance and Control, Vol. 8, No. 4, July-Aug. 1985, pp. 417-425. Modern ideas described.
Walter G. Vincenti, "How Did It Become 'Obvious' That an Airplane Should Be Inherently Stable?" Invention & Technology, Spring/Summer 1988, pp. 50-56. Non mathematical explanation of the development of the standard approach to airplane design stability requirements.
William H. Phillips, "Flying Qualities from Early Airplanes to the Space Shuttle," Dryden Lectureship in Reseach, 1988, Journal of Guidance and Control, Vol. 12, No. 4, July-Aug. 1989, pp. 449-459.
Jan Roskam, "Evolution of Airplane Stability and Control: A Designer's Viewpoint," Journal of Guidance and Control, Vol. 14, No. 3, May-June 1991, pp.481-491. This Another good discussion of the control and stability requirements.
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