The Swearingen-TEB incident: control issues with twins

"Corky Scott" wrote in message
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On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:26:50 -0700, "Matt Barrow"
wrote:

The same guy (Ted Smith ?) who designed the Rockwell/AeroCommander
series,
now called the Twin Commander.

Don't know about Ted Smith, the information I have, which was compiled
by Joseph Baugher and posted to the internet years ago is as follows:


http://www.twincommander.com/aero_design.htm

The story of the man begins with Ted Smith, and the dream starts when, as
project engineer at the Douglas Aircraft Company during the Second World
War, Smith envisioned the day when peace would come and the airplane would
fill its promise of usefulness to man as a transportation vehicle. The
airlines had already developed a growing network of schedules and yet the
air transport system, as it was and as it showed signs of developing, did
not provide for the many needs of business and individual travelers whose
requirements placed a premium on going between origin and destination
(frequently not on the airline map) and doing so with all the convenience,
flexibility and time saving that only a privately owned aircraft could
accomplish. At the same time, comfort, dependability, and safety must be the
ultimate that the aviation industry could achieve.