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"Tarver Engineering" wrote in message
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"Darrell" wrote in message
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No, use of the rudder is explicity unsafe.

Only if you have "Splaps" extended. Whoops. Using a Tarver term again.
(or
was that Splats?)

In fact, using spoiler flaps, as opposed to spoilers as speed brakes only,
is the means through which the rudder is reduced in size for both the
KC-135
and the B-52H. Current models of civilian two engine aircraft have been
designed away from that notion, due to engine out requirements. Keep in
mind that this is a military group, not bound by CFR14 legalese, Schmidt.

Beside being a Boeing instructor I was also an AA airline captain and as for
military, I spent 20 years in the Air Force and flew the B-52H you refer to
at Minot for 5 years. I was an instructor and in Stan Eval in B-52Hs. (we
didn't call them "splaps" or "Splats")