A-330 ailerons

(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)

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

Rudder...yes, Ailerons and Elevator...no.
In fact, the two elevators were not connected to each other. It was
not unusual to see a taxing 707 with one elevator up and the other
one down. Each positioned by a control tab, the left one by the left
yoke and the right one by the right yoke. The two yokes were connected
under the cockpit by a coupler that would slip if forced. Airflow
would cause the tabs to "fly" the elevators to the commanded position.
The ailerons operated in a somewhat similiar fashion.

Bob Moore
ATP B-707 B-727
PanAm (retired)