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Old 27th Jan 2015, 16:25
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Allan Lupton
 
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In fact the elevator, like all the other flying control surfaces on the Il-62, is manually powered via servo tabs.

The running joke in period was that the five-man flight crew was needed to power the manual controls. We thought of it as a coxed four, with four pilots and a commissar who would instruct them when to "heave"
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