Timeline for Why was the WWII RAF fighter joy stick loop design not used widely?
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| Jul 8, 2019 at 7:11 | comment | added | Zeus | I guess everyone adopted the convention we see today: agile airplanes get a (one-hand) stick, while heavier/less manoeuvrable airplanes get a yoke. If one is going to use both hands, yoke is arguably a more ergonomic design. That said, exceptions and mixed designs exist, such as central stick on the very heavy Tu-160, or the Tu-204 (or Concorde's) yoke which is not that fundamentally different from Spitfire. | |
| Jul 8, 2019 at 6:31 | comment | added | AEhere supports Monica | I believe the Il-2 family and even is successors like the Su-6 and Il-10 also stuck with the loop design. That said, do you have any clue as to why did the loop fall out of favour? | |
| Jul 8, 2019 at 1:46 | history | answered | Zeus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
