Flight International 20-26 July page 65 and heading Oshkosh Review.
The FI aviation correspondent gets to fly a C-47 (military DC3) on a couple of circuits. Extract from his report: Quote:
"Once level at 2500 ft amsl and 104 knots I was able to perform some gentle 20 degrees angle of bank turns. Using ailerons to try and turn the aircraft was a lesson in futility. Increasing the aileron deflection only served to generate adverse yaw.
While I had been prepared to co-ordinate the turn with rudder, I quickly learned that to turn the C-47 one only needed rudder, with the ailerons providing style inputs at the best. The lesson learned was I found the C-47 to be a solid predictable aircraft that required the use of ailerons to co-ordinate turns" Unquote.
Surely the journalist jests? "One only needs rudder to turn a DC3" - and "use the ailerons to co-ordinate turns?"
Pprune readers who have flown DC3's must be horrified to read such rubbish.
I was.
