The scope of any aerodynamic formulation proposing to embrace a range of possible maneuvers is shown to be determined principally by the extent to which the aerodynamic indicial response is allowed to depend on the past motion. Starting from the linearized formulation, in which the indicial response is independent of the past motion, two successively more comprehensive statements about the dependence on the past motion are assigned to the indicial response: (1) dependence only on the recent past and (2) dependence additionally on a characteristic feature of the distant past. The first enables the rational introduction of nonlinear effects and accommodates a description of the rate dependent aerodynamic phenomena characteristic of airfoils in low speed dynamic stall; the second permits a description of the double valued aerodynamic behavior characteristic of certain kinds of aircraft stall. An aerodynamic formulation based on the second statement, automatically embracing the first, may be sufficiently comprehensive to include a large part of the aircraft's possible maneuvers. The results suggest a favorable conclusion regarding the role of dynamic stability experiments in flight dynamics studies.
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