Raas767
The B737 fin is not "buried" inside the fuselage either. Most of the airliners I have worked on for the last 20 years have very similar construction in this department. A handful of trunnions and lugs on the top of the fuselage attach to a handful of similar fixtures on the fin.
Can someone please just clear one thing up.
The A300-600 rudder pedal movement at high speed (ie not take off or landing speed) of about 1". Does this really give full scale deflection of the rudder control surface?
When I heard this on the Horizon program I nearly threw the cat at the telly!
Tell me it aint so please.
Thanks to everyone who has expressed a view on this thread. It is what PPRUNE should be all about, professional informed opinion, not the slanging matches that have dominated some topics.