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Old 1st Sep 2008, 16:12
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Originally Posted by BEagle
Electro-hydraulic artificial feel motors in the whiffle-tree (honest!) compartment provided constant stick force per g in roll and pitch by increasing feel levels with TAS; rudder feel gradient was steeper and was IAS related.
The "wiffle-tree" (and not "whiffle", I recall, BEags) was an ingenious method of connecting the two feel units such that, if one feel unit was isolated or failed, the level of artificial feel fed into the system remained unchanged.


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