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The Dutch roll mode is best described as

  • A.An aperiodic decay of roll rate
  • B.A coupled yawing and rolling oscillation driven by sideslip
  • C.A pure yawing oscillation with no roll
  • D.A slow divergence in bank angle

Answer: B

Dutch roll is a coupled oscillation in which sideslip generates both a yawing moment through the fin and a rolling moment through dihedral effect, so the aeroplane wags its nose and rocks its wings together, usually about half a cycle out of phase. A pure yaw oscillation with no roll would need zero dihedral effect, which no practical configuration has. A slow bank divergence is the spiral mode. An aperiodic roll decay is the roll subsidence, the third and fastest of the three.

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