or yaw.

A larger horizontal stabilizer, and a greater moment arm of the horizontal stabilizer about the neutral point, will increase longitudinal stability.

Tailless aircraft

For a tailless aircraft, the neutral point coincides with the aerodynamic center, and for such aircraft to have longitudinal static stability, the center of gravity must lie ahead of the aerodynamic center.

For missiles with symmetric airfoils, the neutral

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