<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aircraft_dynamic_longitudinal_stability.svg" class="image"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Aircraft_dynamic_longitudinal_stability.svg/220px-Aircraft_dynamic_longitudinal_stability.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="64" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Aircraft_dynamic_longitudinal_stability.svg/330px-Aircraft_dynamic_longitudinal_stability.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Aircraft_dynamic_longitudinal_stability.svg/440px-Aircraft_dynamic_longitudinal_stability.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2704" data-file-height="783"></a>  <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aircraft_dynamic_longitudinal_stability.svg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Note that aircraft can also by dynamically unstable</div></div></div>
<p>Diagram showing the three main cases for aircraft pitch static stability, following a pitch disturbance:
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<ul><li>Aircraft is statically stable (corrects attitude);</li>
<li>Aircraft is statically neutral (does not correct attitude);</li>
<li>Aircraft is statically unstable (exacerbates attitude disturbance).</li></ul>
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ariadacapo" title="User:Ariadacapo">Olivier Cleynen</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Werneuchen" title="User:Werneuchen">Werneuchen</a>
2012-03
<ul><li><span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span> (schematics)</li>
<li><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C_172_line_drawing.svg" class="mw-redirect" title="File:C 172 line drawing.svg">C 172 line drawing.svg</a> Aircraft drawing public domain by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Werneuchen" title="User:Werneuchen">Werneuchen</a></li></ul>