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- noun An aircraft motion where the vehicle pitches up and climbs, decreasing speed, and then pitches down and descends, increasing speed.
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Examples
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With the loss of control and non-functional control surfaces, the aircraft began to oscillate up and down in what is known as a phugoid cycle, a flight mode typical of accidents that disable an aircraft's controls.
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With the loss of control and non-functional control surfaces, the aircraft began to oscillate up and down in what is known as a phugoid cycle, a flight mode typical of accidents that disable an aircraft's controls.
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With the loss of control and non-functional control surfaces, the aircraft began to oscillate up and down in what is known as a phugoid cycle, a flight mode typical of accidents that disable an aircraft's controls.
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Within minutes, the plane went into a series of fatal "phugoid" or yo-yo like movements and then crashed into the desert Zia was killed instantly, as were several high-ranking officials, including the US ambassador Arnold Raphael, military attaché Brigadier General Herbert M. Wassom, the chairman of the Pakistan Joint Chiefs of Staff General Akhtar Abdur Rahman and a score of senior army officers plus the crew.
Shuja Nawaz: Will We Ever Know Who Killed Benazir Bhutto? 2008
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A Japan Air 747's pilots fought a phugoid for thirty-two minutes till the plane hit a mountain, killing 520.
John T. Halliday: Software Snakes on a Plane 2 -- The Phone Interview 2009
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You don't know it, but you've entered the first stage of a rare phugoid that will take you on a wild roller-coaster ride.
John T. Halliday: Software Snakes On A Plane: An Interactive Thriller -- Part One 2009
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By 2: 39, the Freddie Kruger autothrottles you think you turned off sense the speed too slow, so firewall to MAX, force the nose up, and start the phugoid rollercoaster all over.
John T. Halliday: Software Snakes On A Plane: An Interactive Thriller -- Part One 2009
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So this 777's autothrottles did the exact wrong thing and made the phugoid worse?
John T. Halliday: Software Snakes on a Plane 2 -- The Phone Interview 2009
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Two computers conspired to bugger this up and sent this plane on a roller-coaster phugoid? "
John T. Halliday: Software Snakes On Planes 3 -- The Phone Interview 2010
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Ten years before this near-deadly phugoid and the FAA hadn't made Boeing fix these craplex 777 ergonomics? "
John T. Halliday: Software Snakes On Planes 3 -- The Phone Interview 2010
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