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← TechnologyWhich stability risk increases when an aircraft's elevons experience actuator saturation?
A)Elevator reversal effectiveness decreases dangerously
B)Dutch roll oscillations become unrecoverable✓
C)Aileron flutter causes structural failure
D)Rudder effectiveness improves unexpectedly
💡 Explanation
Unrecoverable Dutch roll oscillations increases because actuator saturation limits available control authority for yaw damping via the elevons. Therefore, the oscillations amplify rather than diminish because of the degraded yaw control effectiveness at the limit.
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