P38 Lightning question
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P38 Lightning question
Always been a big fan of this aircraft
It had several unique features, the most unusual
to me was the use of a control yoke instead of a
joystick, I think this was to provide the pilot
with more leverage in roll control at higher airspeeds
Does anyone know of any other fighter that had a control yoke ?
It had several unique features, the most unusual
to me was the use of a control yoke instead of a
joystick, I think this was to provide the pilot
with more leverage in roll control at higher airspeeds
Does anyone know of any other fighter that had a control yoke ?
It's probably a legacy design from the day when, multi's had yoke's and single had sticks.
That can be seen in the Mosquito, which may have been the only aircraft type that used both, with yoke wheel in the glass nose 'bomber/recce' versions, and a fighter type stick in the solid nose fighter/trainer versions.
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I think this was to provide the pilot
with more leverage in roll control at higher airspeeds
with more leverage in roll control at higher airspeeds
Spitfire style yoke is common throught the whole of the British aircraft types of that period up to and through the likes of the Fairey Gannet etc. I often wondered as a stick is tailored to a hand, if wounded in one arm the likes of a Spit yoke would be easier to handle with the other.
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And when you lose an engine on one side.
Spitfire style yoke is common throught the whole of the British aircraft types of that period up to and through the likes of the Fairey Gannet etc. I often wondered as a stick is tailored to a hand, if wounded in one arm the likes of a Spit yoke would be easier to handle with the other.
Spitfire style yoke is common throught the whole of the British aircraft types of that period up to and through the likes of the Fairey Gannet etc. I often wondered as a stick is tailored to a hand, if wounded in one arm the likes of a Spit yoke would be easier to handle with the other.
would be compensated for with rudder
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Secondary effect of Yaw is roll
And if in a combat aircraft if you are having to roll it, surely you would be fighting the live engine and hence need greater leverage of a yoke. ?
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And if in a combat aircraft if you are having to roll it, surely you would be fighting the live engine and hence need greater leverage of a yoke. ?
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Does anyone know of any other fighter that had a control yoke ?
Not for ease of roll control in these two, but to conveniently access all the buttons and radar controls and minimize carpal tunnel.
Of course these were interceptors, not fighters.
Mosquito fighters had a stick, Mosquito bombers had a yoke.
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