K&C said:
"Rigga....surprised to hear you've met some who didn't know what an aileron was because they were certainly taught the theory of flight...and relevant control surfaces / effects."
Well, the subject person probably was told that at some point but with the majority of training aircraft in the 90s being 'unconventionally controlled' and, as previously mentioned, spending his career to that date on the Tornado fleet, when a Hawk parked overnight in our team slot he genuinely queried why one 'flap' was pointing down and the other one pointing up...A few of us looked at him twice and then I took him back to those controls surface basics.
When I left the RAF pump screwdrivers were still to be found - in Stores - used for opening wooden transport crates the necessary.
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