Challenger Crashe at TEB

The way the Challenger is built, you can pull a handle on the console
and split the elevators. That way each side has an elevator. Its use
is for an in-flight jam.

The pilot has an elevator on the left side of the tail, and the
copilot has an elevator on the right side of the tail? This seems
very... er... creative. What are the consequences of asymetric elevation?

Jose
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Jose wrote

The pilot has an elevator on the left side of the tail, and the
copilot has an elevator on the right side of the tail? This seems
very... er... creative. What are the consequences of asymetric
elevation?

Same goes all the way back to the B-707 designed in the '50s.
The yokes were connected together by a slip clutch under the
cockpit floor. In fact, the yokes were not even connected to
the elevators. They controlled the "control tabs" which in turn
flew the elevators into position. It was not unusual to see a
B-707 taxi with one elevator UP and the other one DOWN.

Bob Moore

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:18:19 GMT, Jose
wrote:

The pilot has an elevator on the left side of the tail, and the
copilot has an elevator on the right side of the tail? This seems
very... er... creative. What are the consequences of asymetric elevation?

Jose

I would assume that who does the most will make it happen! Obviously,
procedures call for only one at the controls when split. BTW - the
ailerons split also.


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