Originally Posted by
Welsh Wingman
A complete tangent, for which I apologise in advance to all others, but what did Andre Turcat make of a SS on the test SST?
I'm not even sure Turcat himself flew F-WTSB with the sidestick.
But the test flight reports were positive (IIRC, will have to look through the report again), which says a lot, considering the general praise of other pilots about the manual handling of the aircraft with the conventional 'ramshorn' controls.
The side-stick on F-WTSB was never really intended for use on Concorde. After the certification flight tests, F-WTSB was used for several other 'non-type-related' tests, and the side-stick tests were part of that, and indeed led to the A320 story.