Introduction to aircraft motions, dynamics and instruments. Stability, pitch, yaw and roll stability. Aircraft equations of motion, small disturbance theory. Stability derivatives. Aircraft longitudinal and lateral motion, state variables, linearized dynamics equations, flight quality. Aircraft response to inputs. Equations of motion in non-uniform atmosphere. Transfer functions of longitudinal and lateral dynamics. Sensors, control surfaces and servo-mechanisms. Design of automatic control systems based on root locus and Ziegler-Nichols technique. Steady state errors. Fundamental types of automatic control configurations. Pitch and roll automatic control. Systems for flight altitude and velocity automatic control. Systems for stability augmentation. Design of automatic control systems in state space.