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Therefore, the aircraft is directionally unstable.

The static margin (SM) is given by:

Substituting the given values, we get:

∂m / ∂α < 0

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For directional stability, the following condition must be satisfied:

where n is the yawing moment.

-0.2 > 0 (not satisfied)