Bob Moore wrote:

(Roy Smith) wrote
Doesn't the DC-9 work this way too? I have a vague recollection of
talking to a DC-9 pilot who explained the system to me -- mechanical
interconnections to servo tabs, with the main surfaces floating free.

Don't know about the DC-9, but the B-707 worked that way.

Bob Moore
PanAm(retired)

Really?, I'd have thought that the 707 (and maybe DC-9 too) would
have had powered controls?...
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-Gord.
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