Why are side sticks unpopular in sailplanes
It's probably worth adding that there were a number of factors that made the HP-18 a lot of work to fly well, among them irreducible play in the stick aileron motion, no aileron differential(!!), small tail volume, no hands off stability at all. It wasn't really my intention to blame the wear out factor on the stick location, but it probably came out that way.
-Evan
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