Timeline for What are the reasons to evolve from trim tabs to moving the entire surface (e.g. stabilizer)?
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| Jun 11, 2018 at 3:42 | history | edited | Peter Kämpf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 5, 2018 at 0:31 | comment | added | UnrecognizedFallingObject | the DC-9 ailerons are aerodynamically boosted, but require no hydraulic boost. | |
| Jan 5, 2018 at 0:20 | comment | added | Peter Kämpf | @UnrecognizedFallingObject … but I bet they had boosted ailerons. The real art is to design ailerons such that no force multiplication is required. That was what I meant with "manual control", but of course you are right, a boosted manual control is still a manual control. | |
| Jul 3, 2015 at 4:16 | comment | added | UnrecognizedFallingObject | I'd say that it was the widebody that put the true end to manual controls -- DC-9s (all the way up to the last B712 that rolled off the lines) still have manual cable-and-tab controls for most things...agreed that you need a movable tailplane of some flavor for transonic flight, though. | |
| May 27, 2014 at 21:58 | history | answered | Peter Kämpf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |