5 replies
December 2024

gmbfly98

Why not apply it to occupied aircraft too, and not just drones?

December 2024

svanarts

Okay here goes… 3…2…1…

Only Cessna pilots think that ailerons turn the airplane.

(ducks)

December 2024

Oscar-Romeo

Is this not pretty much the same as the horizontal stabilators that have been used by many fighter planes for the last 50 years, like the F-15, F-16, F18, F-22, probably the F-35? When a roll control is input, the ailerons as well as the horizontal stabilators deflect differentially.

December 2024

Douglas_Dodson

A guy named Bob Hoey wrote that paper 30 years ago. He was an engineer at Edwards AFB and he even built bird shaped RC gliders. The tilting tail stabilizes and controls the bird in yaw. The tip feathers do more for control than most people realize too.

December 2024

Arthur_Foyt

Too complicated. In the American Aviation Yankee, all I had to do was lean my shoulders over and the plane would roll in that direction.