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Forum: Tech Log

13th Dec 2010, 00:25

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50 foot-pounds on the yoke...lots? not so much?

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Posted By stepwilk

Christiaan, I know you weren't aiming it at me,...

Christiaan, I know you weren't aiming it at me, you may well not even have noticed that I was a writer in my original post. It's just that I react to the fact that all of us, including me, are...

Forum: Tech Log

12th Dec 2010, 22:14

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50 foot-pounds on the yoke...lots? not so much?

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Posted By stepwilk

"Not 'struggling with the controls', as the...

"Not 'struggling with the controls', as the journos love to say, though."

Careful, now. I don't style myself a "journo," but I am a writer. Which is why posed my original question on this...

Forum: Tech Log

12th Dec 2010, 21:15

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50 foot-pounds on the yoke...lots? not so much?

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Posted By stepwilk

The "foot-pounds" was my misteak--too casually...

The "foot-pounds" was my misteak--too casually using the phrase most familiar to an American non-technician.

Forum: Tech Log

12th Dec 2010, 19:44

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50 foot-pounds on the yoke...lots? not so much?

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Posted By stepwilk

Aha! Finally an answer to my original question: ...

Aha! Finally an answer to my original question: "How would one characterize such a force?"

And the answer is, "Not a huge amount of force." Thank you, sir.

Forum: Tech Log

12th Dec 2010, 16:54

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50 foot-pounds on the yoke...lots? not so much?

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Posted By stepwilk

Yes indeed, there's an excellent link to the...

Yes indeed, there's an excellent link to the official Douglas report in its original typescript form. Go to Fred Cox DC-8 Jet Collection Index (http://www.dc-8jet.com) and click on "supersonic...

Forum: Tech Log

11th Dec 2010, 22:18

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50 foot-pounds on the yoke...lots? not so much?

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Posted By stepwilk

Well, the official Douglas report of the test...

Well, the official Douglas report of the test flights says--and this is the reproduced original, not a transcript--"The dive and recovery techniques to be employed were to include pretrimming the...

Forum: Tech Log

10th Dec 2010, 18:41

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50 foot-pounds on the yoke...lots? not so much?

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Posted By stepwilk

50 foot-pounds on the yoke...lots? not so much?

I'm writing for an aviation-history magazine about a Diesel Eight that actually went supersonic in a dive in 1961, during a Douglas test flight. The test program called for trimming the stabilizer...

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