Lem
Your comment,
"Thus the force of the "tornado" will have little effect on the lateral walls of the house."
Whatever the angle of the force striking the large vertical stabilizer and rudder it was still recorded as a force of 0.8 Gs!!! The aircraft went into a steep left bank and nosed down 30 degrees! A textbook example of a Dutch Roll!
The large, twin engine jet transport design, due to its requirement for a large vertical stabilizer and rudder, to counter the yaw in an engine out on T/O, is now an extremely sensitive weather vane!
The recorded movements of the rudder are an indication of the forces also striking the vertical stabilizer, which has now become a large, flight control surface! (Not under the control of the pilot.)
At some point in time, the linkages to the rudder actuators are severed and now the rudder is free floating and not available to the pilot! (There are no rudder actuator linkages in view in the picture of the vertical stabilizer, being hauled up from the recovery barge. The rudder was found in four pieces!) There is no right rudder input, by the pilot, to assist the full right aileron control input, in the attempted recovery maneuver!
The rudder inputs were not commanded by the pilot!!! Despite Airbus claims!!!
Cheers
ws
Last edited by wsherif1; 1st October 2003 at 12:40.