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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=aviation">aviation</a>, a <b>phugoid</b> or <b>fugoid</b>  is an aircraft motion in which the vehicle <a href="page.php?w=Aircraft_principal_axes">pitches</a> up and climbs, and then pitches down and descends, accompanied by speeding up and slowing down as it goes "downhill" and "uphill". This is one of the basic <a href="page.php?w=aircraft_dynamic_modes">flight dynamics modes</a> of an <a href="page.php?w=fixed-wing_aircraft">aircraft</a> (others include <a href="page.php?w=short_period">short period</a>, <a href="page.php?w=Aircraft_dynamic_modes">roll subsidence</a>,</p><p>
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