Before revision: An aircraft is streamlined from nose to tail to reduce drag making it advantageous to keep the sideslip angle near zero, though an aircraft may be deliberately "sideslipped" to increase drag and descent rate during landing, to keep aircraft heading same as runway heading during cross-wind landings and during flight with asymmetric URL p.V-5 Introduction Reference frames Three right-handed, Cartesian coordinate systems see frequent use in flight dynamics.
After revision: An aircraft is streamlined from nose to tail to reduce drag making it advantageous to keep the sideslip angle near zero, though an aircraft may be deliberately "sideslipped" to increase drag and descent rate during landing, to keep aircraft heading same as runway heading during cross-wind landings and during flight with asymmetric URL p.V-5 Introduction Three right-handed, Cartesian coordinate systems see frequent use in flight dynamics.