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Old 14th Jun 2014, 20:11
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jondc9
 
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I am surprised that the anti wright crowd didn't try to dock points for not having a chair for the pilot to sit in.

I flew a plane without ailerons. Fast Turboprop called an MU2, but it had spoilers for roll (trim ailerons too).

And somehow we got to 1912, even though the wrights had taken a former president flying by then.

Control. Do you need ailerons? maybe not. Do you need rudders? not if you have two engines. Do you need an elevator? Not really. Just set everything and depend on the engines to futz around.

And then you would have a landing like KSUX/DC10?

I lost the ailerons in a piper single once. Flew ok with rudder.

But I got emergency handling at the airport.

Yes, lets all fly without ailerons, without rudders, without elevators.

We could have a paraplane.

I'm a Wright pilot. But I guess there are some non wright pilots out there. Would that make them wrong pilots? ;-)
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