jindabyne
Controls not only have to overcome aircraft inertia and aerodynamic damping in the axes concerned - both of which naturally resist the pilot’s demands for manoeuvre – but they also have to deal with the inherent stability of the wing concerned and the way that the wing pitching and rolling moments will vary with changes to angle of sideslip and angle of attack. In the case of the MiG29/Su27 wings (designed by the same two blokes) they have clearly achieved a better than average optimisation of the many factors involved, resulting in unusually good attitude control being available at much less than normal flying speeds.
Last edited by John Farley; 10th Jun 2012 at 10:28.